Showing posts with label René Magritte. Show all posts
Showing posts with label René Magritte. Show all posts

Monday, 14 February 2011

René Magritte

René Magritte was an artist. His work, which showed a juxtaposition of everyday items in an unusual context, which gave a new meaning to familiar things. For example, he showed this through his painting, The (La trahison des images), displays a pipe, which looks like it could be used as an advertisement for a tobacco store. Magritte painted below the pipe "This is not a pipe" (Ceci n'est pas une pipe), which appears to contradict what he has just painted, but is actually true: the painting is not of a pipe; it is an image of a pipe. When Magritte was asked about this image, he replied that of course it was not a pipe, just try to fill it with tobacco.

He highlights is that everything is a copy of something that doesnt exists.