Magritte or the Object Lesson

The surrealist painter René Magritte questions the objective reality and emphasizes the arbitrariness of the relationship between an object, its image and its name: the evocation of mystery consists of images of familiar things gathered or transformed in such a way that they no longer conform to our ideas, whether naive or wise.

Not available to stream in your country yet.

Release Date

Jan 1, 1960

Runtime

14m

Director

Luc de Heusch

Original Title

La Leçon de choses ou Magritte

Country

Belgium

Company

RTBF, Ministère de l’Instruction publique