| Magritte was not an artist who took an outspoken stance on political affairs. Nevertheless, his renowned picture of a hunter being swallowed up by a wall, “La Gravitation universelle” (Universal Gravitation), 1943, seems to partake of the mood that reigned during the calamitous times prior to and after 1945. Here, too, Magritte showed himself to be an artist who was capable of making a clear, direct statement in perfectly “smooth” painting, but a statement whose deeper meaning only became apparent in a process of gradual understanding – a revelation of what Magritte called “the mystery”. |
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