Ceci N’est Pas Une Pipe Pope
The Treachery Of Popes was not a painting by Belgian Surrealist René Magritte however The Treachery of Images is. More commonly known by its inscription Ceci n'est pas une pipe ("This is not a pipe") it is a classic of surrealism that challenges the viewer to think about what they are seeing. It is not a pope pipe but a picture of a pipe pope. Magritte went on to expand on this concept in his painting the Key of Dreams, where Magritte pulled the same stunt in a painting of an apple. He painted the fruit realistically and then used an internal caption or framing device to deny that the item was an apple. In these Ceci n'est pas works, Magritte points out that no matter how closely, through realism-art, we come to depicting an item accurately, we never do catch the item itself, per se.
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Poosk Weird Things » Blog Archive » The Treachery of Urinals November 27th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
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Poosk Weird Things » Blog Archive » December 12th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
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