The pipe is the distinguishing feature of Magritte’s work. This élément appeared in Paris, in 1928. The first one was very realistically painted. The legend tells the watcher that « this is not a pipe » but the representation of a pipe. Indeed, we don’t see a real pipe. The object is only depicted and it is wrong to say that this is a pipe. I feel really interested in this reflection : The artist shows us that, in the world of pictures in which we live, we sometimes don’t know what is real and what is not. Pictures are lying to us ! Maybe he developed this idea because he worked as an adman.
Magritte clarifies his idea with the pipe, but it is the same for other paintings. For example, we can touch and embrace the canva of of woman, but t is very different from holding a real woman.
Furthermore, this makes me think that when you see the depiction of an artwork, you don’t feel the same emotion than when you are in front of the original one.
Moreover, this though is still valid nowadays, with the continual development of the importance of the image. To go further, we could say that people are not always what they seem to be. As I told in the introduction, I really like René Magritte’s work because it gives us food for thought.
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