Rene Magritte
"The Son of Man"
Oil on Canvas
Two Dimensional
1946
Rene Magritte, a well-known artist, who takes everyday objects and
transforms them into a work for the audience to take a deeper thought in
understanding his main messages conveyed. Born in the year of 1898, whose
mother had committed suicide when he was just fourteen years of age, making a
decision to study at the Academie des Beaux-Art, transforming works with the influence
of highly known Pablo Picasso. Magritte was not well-known until the 1950’s
when he was finally able to be recognized by his work of taking normal day
objects and rearranging them with certain locations in order to make the
audience take a deeper look and see the difference at what is truly in front of
them and what is not.
Magritte’s statement about his work includes the
following, “Everything we see hides another thing. We always want to see what
is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and
which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite
intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is
hidden and the visible that is present.” "The Son of Man" was made as a self-portrait in hopes to translate very
valuable messages to an individual about himself/herself as a human being.
The work has given its audience a connection to surrealism or fantasy
in a way for an individual to open up its imaginative expressions concerning an
individual and what possible objects or ideas are hidden in daily lives. This
art piece was chosen to understand the reason of why the artist placed a
specific object exactly in front of the individuals face, was his reason maybe
to give a meaning of what a insignificant fruit, in this example, seen in
everyday life’s, can hide as a greater interest.
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