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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 ...
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 .
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 est une peinture surréaliste magique. Le faux miroir est une peinture d'un grand oeil ciller, sans cils présents. Un grand pupille noire est situé dans le centre. L'iris est peint pour représenter un ciel bleu clair avec des nuages flottants, blanc, moelleux.
Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–1938. 9 / 18. René Magritte. The False Mirror. Paris 1929 Oil on canvas, 21 1/4 x 31 7/8" (54 x 80.9 cm). Purchase ...
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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 .
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.
