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The Treachery of Images (French: La Trahison des Images) is a 1929 painting by Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. It is also known as This Is Not a Pipe [2], Ceci n'est pas une pipe [2] and The Wind and the Song. [3] Magritte painted it when he was 30 years old.
Below it, Magritte painted, "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" French for "This is not a pipe." The painting is not a pipe, but rather an image of a pipe, This masterpiece of Surrealism creates a three-way paradox out of the conventional notion that objects correspond to words and images.
In René Magritte. …of his most famous pieces, The Treachery of Images (1929), in which a detailed representation of a pipe is combined with the cursive statement: Ceci n’est pas une pipe (“This is not a pipe”). The painting questioned the authority of both images and words. Read More.
Sep 14, 2023 · Magritte also created a black and white etching titled, Ceci n’est pas une pipe (L’air et le chanson) (1962). It measures 11.5 by 14.7 centimeters. It depicts Magritte’s pipe as the central image with the famous words in French “Ceci n’est pas une pipe”, otherwise in English, “This is not a pipe”.
Jan 7, 2018 · Original Title: La Trahison des images (Ceci n'est pas une pipe) Date: 1928 - 1929; Brussels, Belgium ; Style: Surrealism; Period: Vache Period; Genre: symbolic painting; Media: oil, canvas; Location: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA, US; Dimensions: 63.5 x 93.98 cm Share:
When Magritte was interviewed about this, he made it clear that he was referring to the image of the pipe. His claim was that you couldn't stuff tobacco into the figure in the painting (as much as you might imagine that you could), and therefore it was not a pipe but only a representation of a pipe. 1 comment.
Dec 6, 2023 · René Magritte, The Treachery of Images (Ceci n’est pas une pipe) Salvador Dalí. The Persistence of Memory; Metamorphosis of Narcissus. Alberto Giacometti, The Palace at 4 a.m. Hans Bellmer, The Doll/La Poupée; Meret Oppenheim, Object (Fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon) German & Italian art between the wars. Browse this content; Prints and ...
