TATE Liverpool has launched an iPhone app to bring the works of Belgian surrealist René Magritte to life.
The Albert Dock gallery is currently housing a blockbuster exhibition of the work of the Belgian artist, perhaps best-known for his iconic images of anonymous men in bowler hats.
And to tie in with the exhibition, called René Magritte: The Pleasure Principle, the Tate is offering a free iPhone app where people can add some of those men to their own images.
The “Magritte Your World” app features an animation inspired by one of the artist’s most famous paintings, Golconda, which is on display at Tate Liverpool. The app, available through Apple’s App Store, has been designed by creative collective Dorothy.
Dorothy’s Ali Johnson, who lives in Liverpool, said: “The app allows you to take photos or videos on your iPhone camera, or use pictures from your library, and them make it into an animation.
"It uses a recurrent theme in his work – the suited and booted businesspeople raining from the sky.
“It’s an opportunity for us to take a well-known image and bring it up-to date.
