Boijmans TV episode 3. Reproduction prohibited

Edward James

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Edward James (1907-1984) was born on the West Dean estate in Sussex. He was the youngest of Evelyn Forbes’s five children and her only son. Evelyn Forbes was the illegitimate daughter of the Prince of Wales and a society beauty who, according to her son, didn’t really like children very much. The father of Edward James, William Dodge James, earned fortunes in the wood industry and the American railway, but was always away travelling.
From a young age, Edward wanted to be a writer. His grave stone states: ‘poet’. James collected and supported the surrealists in the thirties. He spent his whole life in a fantasy world, created partly by himself, partly by others. A documentary has been made about his life’s work, the sculpture garden Las Pozas in Mexico entitled: Edward James. Builder of Dreams.

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A reflection says more than a 1000 words
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Reproduction forbidden. This title incites curiosity. The surrealist painter Magritte (Lessen, 1898 – Schaarbeek, 1967) searched for the unexpected in daily life and thus manipulated the expectations of the spectator. The painter has not painted an unimaginable dream world, but a picture that places question marks against what is real - and what seems real. This mirror image continues to fascinate. What is it all about exactly? We see an eccentric rich Englishman Edward James. But he is looking in the mirror, or is he standing in front of a painting?

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Edward James
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Jeroen Bosch
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In episode 3 of Boijmans TV, pupils of the Rotterdam Pole Dance Academy consider Ewoud van Rijn ‘naughty’, because in his imagination he regularly has a conversation with the Muses, the daughters of Venus. Security guard Arie has his reservations about the nude shackled women in Van Rijn’s work, but at the same time is very interested in his background as cartoonist. When museum guide Bregje confronts the pole dancers with the famous painting Reproduction prohibited by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte, the ladies would really like to liberate the man in the portrait, who stands with his back to the viewer and is also seen from the back in the mirror. They want to know who he is and then he should see how beautiful the world really is. Ab, from the technical department, once again loses himself in the art. He is happy when he finds himself again.

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