Art

I have to say it, I don't know so much about art. In fact, the last time I was on an art class was on 8th grade. I don't even remember so much about it. But in my desperation my friend María José tried to help me (thank you!) an between the paintings that she showed me I chose: "The lovers"
The Lovers is a surreal painting of René Magritte, a Belgian painter. It's a serie of 4 paintings, all of them show the same two protagonist but there's a little change of the pose or in background.
The painting shows a couple kiss but they are not really touching, they are not really kissing each other, because both have their faces covered with white cloth.
I chose this one because I think is interesting that there's so many attempts of interpretation but the story behind is something really different. So many people believe it's a romantic painting, interpretations like a secret love, o that the lovers have not seen each other, o they have to hide of the society, but experts think the painting is explained in a traumatic episode that he suffered in his childhood. Her mother suicide when he was a teenager, and he witnessed how the dead body was took away from water with a white shirt covering her face.
"The Lovers" is now on the National Gallery of Australia.
I think Daniel could like this painting