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Le Faux Miroir presents an enormous lashless eye with a luminous cloud-swept blue sky filling the iris and an opaque, dead-black disc for a pupil. The allusive title, provided by the Belgian Surrealist writer Paul Nougé, seems to insinuate limits to the authority of optical vision: a mirror provides a mechanical reflection, but the eye is ...
The False Mirror (1928) is a surrealist oil painting by René Magritte that depicts a human eye framing a cloudy, blue sky. In the depiction of the eye in the painting, the clouds take the place normally occupied by the iris. The painting's original French title is Le faux miroir.
Le Faux Miroir. Le Faux Miroir (1928) est un tableau surréaliste réalisé à l' huile sur toile par René Magritte, qui représente un grand œil humain encadrant un ciel bleu nuageux 1, 2, 3. Dans l'œil représenté dans le tableau, les nuages prennent la place normalement occupée par l' iris 4, 5, 6 .
Nous avons à la fois créé et expérimenté l'environnement qui nous entoure, et cela est représenté dans le fait que le iboth des yeux voit et est le reflet du monde. Le faux miroir a été l'un de plusieurs œuvres d'art qui a été produit par Magritte entre la Première et la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
By replacing the eye’s iris with a blue, cloud-filled sky in False Mirror, Magritte challenges us to question what we see and what we think we know. Is the sky a reflection of what the eye is seeing?
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Discover the groundbreaking surrealist works of René Magritte, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, in this interactive exhibition by MoMA. Explore how Magritte challenged the conventions of painting and perception, creating images that question reality and representation. See his iconic works such as The False Mirror, The Eternally Obvious, and The Treachery of Images ...
The False Mirror (1928) is a surrealist oil painting by René Magritte that depicts a human eye framing a cloudy, blue sky. In the depiction of the eye in the painting, the clouds take the place normally occupied by the iris. The painting's original French title is Le faux miroir.
