Rene Magritte The False Mirror


René Magritte The False Mirror Print on Canvas Barton Canberra Australia

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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The False Mirror Artist / Origin: René Magritte (Belgian, 1898-1967) Region: Europe Date: 1928 Period: 1900 CE - 2010 CE Material: Oil on canvas Medium: Painting Dimensions: H: 21 ¼ in. (54 cm.), W: 31 7/8 in. (80.5 cm.) Location: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY


René Magritte "Le Faux Miroir (The False Mirror)," Lithograph after Painting by Rene Magritte

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“The False Mirror” by Rene Magritte Great Works of Literature II

This episode of the Who ARTed podcast is about the great surrealist artist, Rene Magritte and his painting, The False Mirror. Each episode of the podcast foc.


René Magritte "Le Faux Miroir (The False Mirror)," Lithograph after Painting by Rene Magritte

The False Mirror (1928) is a surrealist oil painting by René Magritte that depicts a human eye framing a cloudy, blue sky. [1] [2] [3] In the depiction of the eye in the painting, the clouds take the place normally occupied by the iris. [4] [5] [6] The painting's original French title is Le faux miroir. [7] Provenance


René Magritte The False Mirror Print on Canvas Barton Canberra Australia

The False Mirror. 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.


René Magritte "Le Faux Miroir (The False Mirror)," Lithograph after Painting by Rene Magritte

The False Mirror is an allegorical painting done by Mr. Magritte in the Surrealist art form during his Surrealist period in Paris. The style of this type of art work has also been referred to as "magical realism."

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"The False Mirror" was painted by Rene Magritte in two copies. The original one was created back in 1928 (although 1929 is mentioned in some sources); the second version is dated 1935, but it gained less popularity in comparison to its original version. The composition in the work is a close-up view of the human eye.


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René Magritte The False Mirror Paris 1929 Not on view A huge, isolated eye stares out at the viewer. Its left, inner corner has a vivid, viscous quality. The anatomical detailing of this area and its surface sheen contrast with the matte, dead-black of the eye's pupil, which floats, unmoored, against a limpid, cloud-filled sky of cerulean blue.


1972 Rene Magritte, "The False Mirror" First Edition Photogravure Chairish

The False Mirror. Paris 1929 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 Curator, Anne Umland : The False Mirror presents us with this enormous lash-less eye. Its iris is very implausibly filled with this luminous, cloud-swept blue sky.


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The False Mirror, 1928 by Rene Magritte Courtesy of www.ReneMagritte.org The image jolts the viewer by removing the eye from its usual context, presenting it without the face to which it belongs. It further disrupts expectation by placing a circular sky inside the otherwise ordinary oculus.


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The false mirror Rene Magritte Date: 1928; Paris, France Style: Surrealism Period: Surrealist Paris years Genre: allegorical painting Media: oil, canvas Location: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY, US Dimensions: 54 x 80.9 cm Tags: Sky Eye Iris Daytime Organ Cloud Circle Rene Magritte Famous works Attempting the Impossible • 1928


René Magritte The False Mirror Print on Canvas Barton Canberra Australia

MoMA curator, Anne Umland, and conservator, Michael Duffy, study René Magritte's "The False Mirror," in advance of the exhibition, "Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938.".


René Magritte The False Mirror Print on Canvas Barton Canberra Australia

René Magritte | Conservation of "The False Mirror" Watch on It does not merely reflect, but thinks and feels about those images that the brain processes. The eye in The False Mirror also serves several purposes. As an observer we can look through the painting, we look through the eye towards the blue sky filled with white floating clouds.


Rene Magritte The False Mirror

"The False Mirror" by Rene Magritte, is a painting created in 1929, which depicts an eye looking at the clouds in the sky. Rene Magritte published this painting in 1929, but completed.


René Magritte "Le Faux Miroir (The False Mirror)," Lithograph after Painting by Rene Magritte

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