The artwork titled “Annunciation,” created by René Magritte in the year 1930 in Paris, France, is an oil painting on canvas that belongs to the Surrealism art movement. It is categorized as a symbolic painting and is currently housed in Tate Modern, London, UK.
In this artwork, distinct surreal elements emerge vividly against a backdrop of a sky filled with clouds. The composition features two prominent, abstract, sculpture-like forms on the right, resembling human figures but rendered with a unique, somewhat mechanical simplicity. To their left, a highly contrasting, patterned cloth—or perhaps an elaborate structure—descends vertically, flanked by a border of increasingly organic, rounded elements. The lower half of the scene is occupied by lush greenery and jagged rocks, which add to the surreal nature of the landscape. The overall impression is one of a dreamlike, imaginative world, characteristic of Magritte’s symbolic and thought-provoking oeuvre.
