Jan Herremans
Ceci n'est pas une crevette
Spotted on the wall of a fish factory in Saudakrokur. Did Magritte pass here ?
I dont think so, just a tribute to the Belgian
surrealist painter René Magritte
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Magritte
Magritte's work frequently displays a juxtaposition of ordinary objects in an unusual context, giving new meanings to familiar things. The representational use of objects as other than what they seem is typified in his painting, The Treachery of Images (La trahison des images), which shows a pipe that looks as though it is a model for a tobacco store advertisement. Magritte painted below the pipe "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" ("This is not a pipe"), which seems a contradiction, but is actually true: the painting is not a pipe, it is an image of a pipe. It does not "satisfy emotionally"—when Magritte once was asked about this image, he replied that of course it was not a pipe, just try to fill it with tobacco
Ceci n'est pas une crevette
Spotted on the wall of a fish factory in Saudakrokur. Did Magritte pass here ?
I dont think so, just a tribute to the Belgian
surrealist painter René Magritte
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Magritte
Magritte's work frequently displays a juxtaposition of ordinary objects in an unusual context, giving new meanings to familiar things. The representational use of objects as other than what they seem is typified in his painting, The Treachery of Images (La trahison des images), which shows a pipe that looks as though it is a model for a tobacco store advertisement. Magritte painted below the pipe "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" ("This is not a pipe"), which seems a contradiction, but is actually true: the painting is not a pipe, it is an image of a pipe. It does not "satisfy emotionally"—when Magritte once was asked about this image, he replied that of course it was not a pipe, just try to fill it with tobacco