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| Rene Magritte, 1928-29 |
All images are abstractions. According to Kit White, "they are never the thing pictured, they are a conceptual or mechanical reproduction of a thing past." Magritte's painting of a pipe (see picture), with the words, "this is not a pipe," plays into the fact that a painting or photo is not the actual object that it depicts. When we look at the painting, we say it is a pipe, but it is really a symbolic representation of a pipe. Magritte stated, "The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture "This is a pipe", I'd have been lying." Enjoy!
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