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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.
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?
Paris 1929 538. Oil on canvas, 21 1/4 x 31 7/8". (54 x 80.9 cm). Purchase. © 2018. C. Herscovici, Brussels / Artists. Rights Society (ARS), New York. Narrator: After leaving Magritte’s studio, The False Mirror was coated with synthetic varnish giving it a very even, shiny surface.
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 .
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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 .
54 cm 80.9 cm. The False Mirror is a Surrealist Oil on Canvas Painting created by René Magritte in 1929. It lives at the MOMA, Museum of Modern Art in New York. The image is used according to Educational Fair Use, and tagged Eyes and Clouds. Source See The False Mirror in the Kaleidoscope.
