And like the popular kid in school, Magritte made his own interests interesting to other people — people like Paul McCartney and Steve Jobs , who not so coincidentally named their corporations Apple Records and Apple Inc.
There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present. Because Magritte is a Surrealist, it could be literally anything, making our curiosity all the more painful.
This piece is one of two in existence. They are not exactly identical, though. As album covers go, The Listening Room has to be one of the coolest. A later version of the painting also of the same name was made in and is held in a private collection.
Both paintings feature identical or near-identical green apples, but place them in different rooms. In the version, the room has wood flooring and a glass window with white trim. In the version, this is replaced by a gray brick room with an arched open-air window. The painting highlights a number of themes common in Magritte's work.
Other paintings to prominently feature an apple include The Son of Man , where the apple obscures the face of bowler-hatted man, and This is not an Apple , where an apple is accompanied by the caption "Ceci n'est pas une pomme" "This is not an apple". It is also one of many paintings to play with the concept of scale by juxtaposing objects normally of different sizes.
In Elective Affinities an egg is pictured filling a birdcage, in The Tomb of the Wrestlers a red rose fills a room and in Personal Values —52 common household objects such as a comb, a glass and a bar of soap dwarf the usual furniture in a bedroom. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:.
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