One of my favorite types of artwork has always been: Surrealism. I actually came across one of my favorite surreal artworks of all time at MOMA and that would have to be " The Empire of Light II" (1950) by brilliant surrealist Rene Magritte! Now as you can see the top portion of the painting shows sunny day with bright sky with white clouds signifying daytime, while the bottom part of the painting shows dark lighting signifying night time. What I truly love about surrealism is it kinda reveals the irony of something that we can be so oblivious about. This is such a well-known and brilliant piece. Magritte takes something so simple and transforms it. This scene is subtlety surreal! It looks like a photograph (reminder this is a painting!!) yet it is surreal because of the sky.
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