René Magritte and the Art of Thinking

Lisa Lipinski, assistant professor of art history, explores the Surrealist artist René Magritte’s paintings as a form of thinking, probing the limits of our perception through ordinary objects rendered with illusionism. She argues that Magritte’s painting is about vision and the act of viewing, of perception itself and the process of how we see and experience things in the world, including paintings as things.