As contemporary updates to early Northern Renaissance paintings and ukiyo-e woodblock prints have shown, GIFs have become a popular way for artists to revisit and reinterpret art history. The latest works to join this burgeoning genre of remixed animations, created by the German-based illustrator Raphaëlle Martin, were inspired by René Magritte, himself a master of altering the familiar. Martin released her first collection of Magritte-inspired animations last year, but she has just published a new set that demonstrates how much more bizarre the Surrealist’s paintings can be when brought to life and played on a loop.
