Discussion Questions
Les valeurs personnelles (Personal Values)
René Magritte
May 2017
René Magritte, Les valeurs personnelles (Personal Values), 1952; collection SFMOMA, purchase through a gift of Phyllis C. Wattis; © Charly Herscovici, Brussels / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; photo: Katherine Du Tiel
- What words or phrases would you use to describe the place depicted in this painting?
- If you could enter this space, would you be standing inside or outside? What do you see that makes you say that?
- In your mind’s eye, change the scale of one of the objects within this painting. How does that affect your response to the work?
- If you were going to make a work called Personal Values, what objects would you choose to depict? Which objects would be big and which objects would be small?
