Abstract
The purpose of this study is to specifically analyze the function of the soundscapes formed by the auditory images latent in René Magritte's works and examine their meaning. As a result of analyzing the soundscape elements in his 1,957 works, it was found that ‘instrument’, ‘score’, and ‘bell’ form theme groups, and ‘tuba’, ‘score’, and ‘bell’ represent each subject group. The ‘score’ included in the work through collage functions to evoke auditory images in the art work in silence, breaking the hierarchy of senses absolutely dominated by sight and the discord between sense organs. The ‘tuba’, juxtaposed with Magritte’s icons in an unexpected way, functions to give a subversive poetic meaning to reality by evoking shock and mystery in the work. In the work, ‘bell’ has the function of making us aware of the everyday existence of soundscapes and revealing the mystery behind them. The soundscapes that serve various functions in Magritte's works are meaningful in that they demonstrate the possibility of a new expressive method of surrealism as a whole.
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