This painting ‘The Lovers’ by Rene Magritte is one of the most intensely revealing, yet abstract one on the subject of love. On a casual glance, it looks absurd. But on a little reflection, it reveals a lot of layers.
It makes you stop for a while and think about relationships we form with people we are closest to, the things that remain intentionally unrevealed, the secrets that shroud us, or perhaps the relationship itself that remains hidden due to societal constraints.
What does it reveal to you?
Erratic Expeditions 
Seems to me they are in a relationship, yet they are hiding many things from each other.. They make love, yet they are far apart sometimes… they seem to be together, yet forced to be so…
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Well observed.
Its a fascinating picture..
Different observations at different times by different persons…
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i am sure…
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I often think – did these artists ever think, while painting or writing, that their work would be deciphered in so many different ways?
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yes.. I wrote a poem on this subject.. “painting on the wall” its the same theme.. when the artist paints, what is it in their mind and what the admirer thinks of it.. its fascinating
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I think I did read it, but I’ll see it again anyway.
Beauty is, rightly, in the eyes of the beholder.
In my opinion, everybody is an artist in a way
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true that
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The personality or like you mentioned, secrets, of each that are still not shown.
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There’s always a mystery unknown.
Thanks for sharing
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Yes, for more than we think we know a person we really don’t know if they may be hiding something, doesn’t necessarily need to be bad, but it can be the case.
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Rightly said!
I think we can’t fully know everything about a person, even the person himself will fail at that.
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So true, and that is not exclusively the case for couples. We don’t know a person 100% and probably never wil.
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Indeed! I think it’s better that way to some extent.
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Maybe because that way our expectations will not be higher and our feelings may not be hurt as much.
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☺
And in my opinion, it also gives us room to navigate through life as we deal with others.
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I hadn’t thought of it from that perspective but I think it’s true 🙂
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Thanks for your insights and the conversation!
Looking forward to more..☺
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No problem, same to you 😊
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I love how the picture is “revealing” why covering the faces. It is so ironic that way! 🙂
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It really is very subtly ironic.
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Yes, very good!!!
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I love abstract art, which is always open to viewer interpretation. For me, this painting illustrates two lovers who are still hiding from each other. It’s actually the opposite of my next poem which I’ll be posting tomorrow 🙂
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I’ll be eager to read it for sure.
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Thank you 🙂
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I love the pic so much, it goes nicely with your words.
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Thanks.
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Thank you for sharing
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I love it. It makes me think about a relationship with lots of secrets, too afraid to reveal our true selves and only allowing the love to touch the surface which is not nearly deep enough.
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Nicely put, Tracy.
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Deep.. From my point of view, it looks like people in love who have chosen to remain blind to each other, in terms of faults and stuff. Which could either be a positive or negative thing. But it surely is an interesting picture
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