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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

9. A piece of art

The son of man

The son of man was painted by René Magritte in 1964. Its an oil painting and it shows a portrait of himself and a green apple in the middle of his face, the man is in front of a seaside landscape. At the beggining, Margritte painted a portrait, but when he finished it he showed it as an anonymous man; we could recognize him seeing his eyes behind the apple.

This painting belongs to the “surrealism”, a type of art which started in the 1920s and came from de Dada movement. The surrealism tries to represent a fantastic reality and sometimes scenes from the dreams. It's between the reality and the “no reality”.


This painting isn't exhibited in any museums or galleries, it belongs to a private property.

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