Smart Alec, Sacre Bleu!
Rene Magritte
(1898 - 1967)
The Treachery of Images (La Trahison des Images)
(1928 - 1929)
Rene Magritte, a Belgian artist, is widely considered the father of surrealism. In The Treachery of Images, he challenges the viewer to explore the notion of perception. By painting a photorealistic pipe and then stating that "this is not a pipe," Magritte presents the viewer with a paradox. Is in fact, not a pipe. It is a painting of a pipe. That smart-alec!
Oui, plutôt fin. There's a good book by Foucault about this.
Good piece about Warcraft by the way.
Sam
Posted by: Samuel Jamier | March 13, 2007 at 10:47 PM