Rene Magritte developed many different motifs in his art throughout his life, here in this piece using generative A.I and procreate I recreated motifs stretching across Magritte’s life. While not an oil painter myself I asked the generative A.I to recreate a front view of a forest resembling “Signature in Blank” in the style of an oil painting. It is different from the original piece, but it evokes a Magritte art style; even detailing an archway in the middle of the forest. Magritte used archways in his artwork often to exemplify the inside and outside nature of the human mind in his art. An example of how he would play with this concept can be seen on the floor below the forest floor with a doorway that is open to the outside world and an easel with an oil painting seemingly transparent through the wall; directly inspired by “The Human Condition II.” The separated floors themselves exhibit this quality as well; I have an outside landscape underneath the floor of the forest which is impossible to have. The forest floor almost seems sawed out as if it's the floor of a building. I'm recreating one of Rene’s earliest works, “Popular Panorama.” Rene differed from many surrealists, drawing from the awakened mind versus the sleeping. In his eyes “The painter’s art, as I see it, is about making poetic image visible,” he never used symbolism, always reality just altered like in the mind. He wouldn’t gain much recognition until later in his life and much more after his death, his art, his mind can be seen stamped throughout surrealist art now though, even in this generative A.I.
