The painting looks like a traveler who does not have a head. Magritte applies 2-point perspective. The man is sitting where the orthogonals converge, with a complex in the back ground presenting 2 obvious vanishing points. The traveler, or rather, the liberator, presents people’s hidden anxiety. The painting as a whole looks like a dream..." Read complete interpretation at http://revelationofsubconscious.blogspot.nl/2010/09/liberator-compassion-for-human-beings.html