"Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see." Rene Magritte (http://www.renemagritte.org/) Magritte did not see himself as an artist, but rather as a thinking human being who conveyed his thoughts through his painting. [http://arthistorynewsreport.blogspot.nl/2017/03/magritte-treachery-of-images.html] René François Ghislain Magritte (21 Nov. 1898-15 Aug. 1967); Belgian surrealist artist. Well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images. Often depicting ordinary objects in an unusual context, his work is known for challenging observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality. His imagery has influenced pop, minimalist and conceptual art. ...Magritte's work frequently displays a collection of ordinary objects in an unusual context, giving new meanings to familiar things. The use of objects as other than what they seem is typified in his painting, The Treachery of Images (La trahison des images), which shows a pipe that looks as though it is a model for a tobacco store advertisement. Magritte painted below the pipe "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" ("This is not a pipe"), which seems a contradiction, but is actually true: the painting is not a pipe, it is an image of a pipe. It does not "satisfy emotionally"—when Magritte was once asked about this image, he replied that of course it was not a pipe, just try to fill it with tobacco. Magritte used the same approach in a painting of an apple: he painted the fruit 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 naturalistically we depict an object, we never do catch the item itself. Among Magritte's works are a number of surrealist versions of other famous paintings. Elsewhere, Magritte challenges the difficulty of artwork to convey meaning with a recurring motif of an easel, as in his The Human.... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Magritte) undefined

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