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Rene Magritte : The Son of Man
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Rene Magritte: The Son of Man

The Son of Man
Oil on Canvas
1964, 116cm x 89 cm

        This painting of a green apple floating in front of the face of a otherwise conventional man. Magritte said about the painting, "Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden" Because of the title, one thinks it may be the apple that was handed to Adam by Eve that the man is being blinded by. Adam can't see beyond the delicious apple, and we can't see him. Magritte also painted a similar painting with an apple and called it The Great War. Here you'd think it was nature and many other things blinding the man from seeing.
   
   
   

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