The false mirror
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.❞ wrote a few years ago Sydney J. Harris…
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“The False Mirror” by René #Magritte is one of the most significant works of Surrealism.
[painted in 1928 today is exhibited at the #MoMA of New York]
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☞ Do you know…
‣ The picture depicts a great eye whose iris, however, is a sky. The pupil in the center, highlighted here by our iconic red, represents the sun.
‣ Magritte is not much interested in the pictorial rendering of the work, but rather in its conceptual meaning capable of triggering a consideration on the reality that surrounds us. This painting represents the limits of human vision: the eye does not simply reflect like a #mirror but thinks and elaborates by offsetting our perception of the world.
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⇒ Date: 1929
⇒ Material: Oil on canvas
⇒ Dimensions: 21 1/4 x 31 7/8″ (54 x 80.9 cm)
⇒ Site: New York, U.S. – MoMA