Here is ‘Akouvi’s painting’ and her text:

THE SECRET PLAYER OF MAGRITTE

Magritte is a native Belgian; he studied at the Academie Royale des Beaux Arts from 1915. Surrealist artist, he is famous for his colorful and mysterious paintings.

He used such things as musical notes and animals to represent different things in his works. Sometimes these rather innocent things could take on a rather sinister feel to them, as a result of Magritte placing them where they “do not belong”.

WHAT I SEE

SECRET PLAYER 1927 is the first painting completed where Magritte found his distinct style.

Secret Player: there is the turtle and there is the woman; literally, closeted away in the background. The painting shows two men playing an apparently serious game resembling baseball. A strange bird-like object hovers above them and the painting of a woman wearing a mask rests subtly in the background.

WHAT I FEEL

When I look at this painting, I think that Magritte sees an imaginary world where people can be in osmosis with nature ( animals, trees, water,) or can play with nature, but the woman with a mask represents a person who has a double life, she hides her true nature. In society she looks different but in reality she is another person. The two representations: the 2 men playing and a woman with a mask for me, it is what people need, “A BETTER WORLD” where they can be what they are.

STORY

Magritte is thinking about his life and the lives of many people around him. He realises that they appear as society would like. So they try to be like that but in reality behind the mask which they have, they would shout to the whole world the person who they are.