Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Key of the Field
Alternate Title:
La Clef des champs
Image View:
Overall view without frame
Creator:
René Magritte (Belgian painter, 1898-1967)
Location:
repository: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, Madrid, Spain) Inv. no. 657 (1976.3)
Location Note:
Paseo del Prado, 8
GPS:
40.416111-3.695
Date:
1936 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Belgian (modern)
Style Period:
Surrealist; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
80 cm (height) x 60 cm (width)
Subjects:
landscape; trompe l'oeil; window
Description:
La Clef des champs (The Key of the Field) was painted in 1936. By then Magritte was internationally known, as Alfred Barr had included his work in the legendary exhibition of Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, as an exponent of photographic Surrealism, together with Dalí and Tanguy. Through the traditional theme of the picture within a picture, in the manner of a painted collage, Magritte explores the world of absurd associations as Max Ernst had done before him. The landscape painted on the broken glass therefore shows that illusion and reality are one of the same thing. (Source: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum [website]; https://www.museothy ssen.org/en/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-MAGRITTE-TBM-CC- A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Key of the Field