Magritte e i suoi molteplici punti di vista. Riflessi letterari dell’oggetto dipinto, filmato e sceneggiato

This thesis aims at analyzing Magritte’s multifarious artistry in the light of its interdisciplinarity. The first chapter starts from the philosophical and linguistic côté that can be found in his work in order to deeply explore its figurative and semiotic aspects. The use of rhetorical forms in Magritte clearly shows the importance of the graphemic character of the word, dominated by the mimetic sign. The encounter, or rather the coincidence, between the two opposites (mimesis and semiosis) discloses the space that separates them: the nowhere we tried to define through various instruments. From a comparative point of view, this space of separation shows various literary ties (especially with Baudelaire and Mallarmé) inherent in the titles and in the representations of Magritte work. The words become images and the role of memory and dream attuned to the thought of R. Caillois. The artist constructs a network with the past, the present and the future, which suggests a parallelism with Warburg’s Atlas. In this mosaic, the gesture of writing mixes with the painting; similarly in Magritte the distinction between the two actions is cancelled through the free re-signified association of the visible. The painter destroys and builds at the same time, superimposing appearances, so to move away from a faithful description of reality. This rejection produces a gap in which the content of words and images fuses into a single element: page–canvas–screen. This is what some of Magritte’s creations reveal in their illustrative and film transposition, in which we see the assembling and disassembling of distant realities through the use of humor that reveals their thin divide.