Time Transfixed
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Time Transfixed (La Durée poignardée) (1938) is a painting by the Belgian painter René Magritte. It is on permanent display at the Art Institute of Chicago. In general, the painting is a surrealist work which challenges the viewer’s sense of reality and comprehension of stability.
The painting depicts a locomotive coming out of a fireplace in a rather empty dining room. The fireplace resembles a train tunnel. In the mirror all that is seen is the clock and the candles, suggesting that there is neither any furniture nor any people in this room.
In explaining Time Transfixed, Magritte said: "I decided to paint the image of a locomotive . . . In order for its mystery to be evoked, another immediately familiar image without mystery — the image of a dining room fireplace — was joined."
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