Personal Values
The rooms found in the paintings of Surrealist Rene Magritte are open to the blue sky, have locomotives in the living room, and play with scale to a level of absurdity. Yet, the rooms still have a familiar, home-like quality to them...
The rooms' traditional shells and humble furnishings make one think of home, despite their surreal content. Maybe it's also because those out-of-scale objects are mundane relics from everyday life. Or because that blue sky is so darned perfect. Or the train is surrounded by a traditional fireplace hearth.
At any rate, we enjoy getting lost in the silence of these "homes", at once so strange and familiar.
© 2009 Apartment Therapy
Magritte is my favorite artist! Thank you for this post! Our bedroom is a tribute to him (work in progress) with apple green walls and framed Magritte prints.
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