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Rene magritte reflection painting10/28/2023 ![]() ![]() What Magritte has managed to achieve with The False Mirror, is the sense that the observer is also being watched by the eye. It is almost as if we are looking through a window that is in the shape of an eye. As an observer we can look through the painting, we look through the eye towards the blue sky filled with white floating clouds. The eye in The False Mirror also serves several purposes. It does not merely reflect, but thinks and feels about those images that the brain processes. A mirror reflects what is places before it, whereas the eye is subjective, it filters and processes those images that it wishes to see. The False Mirror is widely acknowledged to represent the limitations of human vision. The emotion that instantly springs to mind when observing The False Mirror, is that of wonder and fear, as this is the emotion that has been represented in this surrealist paint form. The upper and lower lids of the eye almost appear to be stretched, giving the eye a bulbous like quality. The observer can also see the white sclera of the eye. The iris appears to be full of life and almost luminescent, while the pupil is black and dead. The iris is painted to represent a bright blue sky with floating, white, fluffy clouds. A large black pupil is located in the centre. The False Mirror is a painting of a large, unblinking eye, with no eyelashes present. The False Mirror is a magical surrealistic painting. Today this oil on canvas painting is housed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The painting was previously owned by Man Ray, a photographer from Belgium, from 1933 through to 1936. Maybe I'll paint a few canvases in tribute to him, using some of his images.as a joke of course.What is interesting is that the name was penned by the surrealist writer and fellow Belgium, Paul Nougé. Of the many artists I admire I think Rene Magritte is closest in style and temperment to me. Some of my early paintings have mysterious objects like the Flower of the Universe, the flower become almost magical as if imbued with a surreal power. Magritte like to base his paintings on poetry and literature.Īll of my Driftwood Series use mental trickery of some kind. ![]() There's inconic religious imagery and it's based on the legend of Lady Godiva. The mysterious horses, the painting within a painting (the actual painting is upside down and is a painting of a painting on an eisel). Reflections is a bit of a mental mind game. Eck Roberston towering above the mountains.the cherry pie and puddin' seem to be magically placed. It's not that I have tried to copy or emulate him or his work in any way.it's just that some of the things I do remind me of his style of painting. Here are some examples of Magritte's influence on my art. ![]() The interpretation he leaves to the viewer. In fact he distanced himself from the surrealist ideologies in the early 1930s and tried to use ordinary objects as symbols. Contrary to what he said publicly, Magritte cared deeply about his work and there is meaning in his work. Magritte took this stance that no one could fathom his paintings, that reality is in fact unfathomable. Rene Magritte described his paintings saying, "My painting is visible images which conceal nothing they evoke mystery and, indeed, when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question, 'What does that mean?' It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable." Sometimes night is day and day is night. His iconic symbols like the egg and apple have profound meaning.well maybe not. Magritte is poking fun at reality itself, at meaning and at our perception of reality. Sometimes he tells us that what we see is not real it's just paint on canvas. Provoking thought is an essential element of art for me and even though some surrealist images are not to be fathomed, making me think is enough. If you're not trying to say something, if you're not trying to get the viewer involved mentally and emotionally- why bother. Although some images like fractals pose an awesome type of beauty and wonderment to me, real images connect me to my world. There are may ways that we are similar, I've included a few examples below. This section is dedicated to the artwork of René François Ghislain Magritte (November 21, 1898– August 15, 1967) who was a Belgian surrealist artist who painted around 1,600 pieces. ![]()
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