ARTS & CULTURE
59 January/February 2019 StPeteLifeMag.com
This show ends with an interactive
the visitor to literally step inside
the art for a playful and memorable
experience.
Surrealist Styles
approaches with their respective
committed to content and ideas that
everyday assumptions of reality.
Magritte is known for his deadpan
style and witty, thought-provoking
imagery of ordinary objects placed in
unusual context. His “cut-outs” in a
setting or landscape reveal another
dimension or unexpected reality
beyond. Numerous paintings present
cutouts through which can be seen
sky. His L’Oiseau de ciel (Sky Bird,
Dali, as well, was a master of placing
images within images, as can be
Old Age, Adolescence, Infancy (The
pieces by both artists side by side,
showing either related concepts or
imagery that clearly relate the two
yet display individual styles. Another
beauty worth contemplating is
metamorphosing from a green plant
along a shoreline. The birds are ready
to soar into those beautiful clouds,
this time seen hovering above a
mountain and seascape.
Both artists addressed the subject
of the female nude and fetishism,
and both topics are explored in
several galleries making this exhibit
not especially child-friendly. Other
galleries explore how both artists
portrayed irrational spaces and
double images.
Art and the Imagination
are invited to inject themselves
screen room where the clouds are
It’s a “fully immersive experiential
room,” according to Jason Lashley,
creative director at Pixel Rain Digital,
an interactive projection mapping
company based in St. Petersburg.
gallery where visitors can insert
themselves via projection magic into
two paintings. Lashley describes it
as “augmented reality using infrared
tracking” on 54-inch monitors. With
the swipe of a hand, we are frozen in
time, allowing just enough seconds to
body image has replaced the man in
the overcoat and bowler hat, in one of
Magritte’s most recognized images,
The Son of Man.
The Dali organized the exhibit in
a partnership with The Magritte
Museum (a part of the Royal
Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium,
Exhibitions at The Dalí Museum, and
Dr. Michel Draguet, General Director
of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of
Belgium. The Dali Museum is located
hours and ticket information go to
thedali.org
An adult art workshop, “Paint Like Magritte,” will be
held January 31 in which students can paint their own
chocolate tasting experience is being planned for
Belgian chocolate torte and Belgian beer for the
of events, go to thedali.org/events
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