1. Art of the Day The Liberator by Rene Magritte Presentation by: Eli Mitnick

2. ❏ Created in Brussels, Belgium by Rene Magritte, a Belgian surrealist painter. ❏ Was created in 1947, recently following World War II. During this war, Belgium was almost completely destroyed. ❏ A perfect example of Magritte’s dream-like, surrealist way of painting.

3. Character: ❏ The key, goblet, bird and pipe are all symbols of freedom or ease. ❏ The man seems common and drab as he is wearing a dull hat and pants and has a briefcase. ❏ The man has no face. ❏ The man is holding a cane. ❏ The cloak surrounds most of the man and seems to be trapping his freedom (the symbols).

4. Color: ❏ The red cloak and the lips of the skeletal woman (a lost love) are both vibrant red and contrast with the rest of the piece. ❏ The land behind the man is green. ❏ Behind the beautiful city it is completely black. ❏ The image contains mostly soft and cheerful colors, but it does also have some darker colors, which would be the clothes of the man, the symbols inside the man and the darkness behind the city.

5. Light: ❏ Both beyond the city and from the way the man had come have no light. ❏ There seems to be light flowing out of the bottom of the city. ❏ There are small shadows all around the exterior body parts and clothes of the man, but there is no light inside where the symbols of freedom are.

6. Angle: ❏ The man is seen from the front. He is seen from straight on, he is exposed. ❏ The image captures the bottom of the infinitely tall city. ❏ The man seems to be high above the grass, but about level to the height of the entrance.

7. Proportion: ❏ The man is a dominant object in the foreground. ❏ Though the man looks big, the city still rises over him. ❏ The trees on the grass below are tiny compared to the other objects in the image. The trees line either side of the path.

8. Placement: ❏ The viewer can only see the bottom of the city as the city continues to rise up out of the image. ❏ The man sits directly in the front as he is the main focus of this piece. The man and all of his belongings in the image are seen in their entirety. ❏ The clouds are floating into the doors of the city.

9. Setting: ❏ The place behind the man is a heaven-like place in which people can liberate themselves from life troubles. ❏ The man currently sits on a brown rock wall. ❏ Takes place most likely in modern day. ❏ It appears to be day time where the man is sitting and in the city, but not beyond the city. There, it is always night

10. Character: The man in the image lives a mundane life and seeks liberation from this lifestyle. He also seeks liberation from his lost love who traps him in the past as he always holds the ornate piece with a woman’s face representing this love. The face has no face as he represents all man and instead of a face, symbols of freedom are seen from his inner body. Color: The vibrant red of the man’s cloak and the woman’s lips contrast with the other soft colors of the image because the woman and the cloak are the two things holding the man back from liberation (the woman traps him in the past and the man’s cloak trap his inner self or the symbols). There are dark images (beyond the city, the man’s clothes and the symbols inside the man, which have not yet been liberated). Light: There are small shadows around the man’s exterior, but not on the inside as the inside is pure. There is light coming from the bottom of the city leading people to the entrance. There is darkness from where the man came from (no turning back) and from beyond the city. Angle: The man is seen from the front as seems to be high above the grass below but level with the city’s entrance (where he belongs). Image captures bottom of city. Proportion: Though the man looks big, the infinitely tall city towers above him as the man will only be a part of this heaven. The tiny trees lining the path to the city represent family and friends along the man’s path through life. Placement: The clouds are placed in the entrance to the city making it seem as if they are entering the city as people have done for ages. The man and his belongings in the image are seen in their entirety because this man has nothing to hide. Setting: The man sits on a rock wall representing the home he is leaving and he is waiting in front of a heaven-like city. The image is most likely set in modern-day and it appears to be mid-day, except in the darkness beyond the city.