Golkonda (Magritte)
Golkonda or Golconde is a table of Rene Magritte paints in 1953. It belongs to the Menil Collection (Houston)
It is a table Surréaliste which represents in a repeated way, almost obsessing and symmetrical, a very impersonal man, a little stiff, who “rains” on the city, represented by simple white buildings with the red roof, which occupy the lower half of the table. Prospect is at the same time linear with Break point (visible on the building of right-hand side), atmospheric (men at the bottom which becomes slightly fuzzy) and comprises a succession of plans. The colors, rather cold, are divided between the white, blue, the gray and the beige. The light comes from behind the buildings, like an incipient paddle, and emphasizes the men, who are like black tasks.
This " pluie" men with the bowler hat, vêtus of dark gray, became a metaphor of the human condition at the XXème century, the symbol of the loss of individual identity and monotonous banality of the daily newspaper.