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Michael Ash Smith's avatar

You may enjoy this photo series I did based solely on his piece “The Lovers II”

https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelashsmith/p/the-lovers?r=2vi6rs&utm_medium=ios

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Alina Okun's avatar

That's so innovative! Thank you for sharing.

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Jenn's avatar

Really love Magritte, thank you so much for this exploration into his art and life, I enjoyed learning more about him!

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Alina Okun's avatar

I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

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Michael Simmons's avatar

Loving your posts Alina!

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Alina Okun's avatar

Thank you, Michael!

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Dow's avatar

I have long enjoyed Magritte’s work!

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Alina Okun's avatar

I'm always fascinated by it.

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Dow's avatar

I actually remember this girl bringing him up to me in a conversation in a coffeeshop business I started 25 years ago in the college town where I went to school in Lexington, Virginia. She was from India but had also recently graduated from the same school. At the time I was reading all this stuff on alchemy and we were having coffee and talking about art equivalents, and lucid dreaming and things like that, and she said whatever I was talking about at that moment reminded her of Rene Magritte. And so I looked him up.

And since then his style definitely influenced me towards magical realism in my own focus on what to depict artistically.

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Alina Okun's avatar

Love it! That's a great memory.

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George Appletree's avatar

Well, I think Magritte is not Magritte

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