Research Paper On Le Faux Magritte

In order for people to understand the problems that artists face, they would need to first understand where it came from and how it died. The High Renaissance was an era in Europe that gave birth to the idea of expression through visual art. Admired by many, artists began to thrive and some of the most iconic pieces such as the Mona Lisa and The Creation of Adam were created. Artists’ brilliance were finally recognized, and they had the confidence to pursue a career that they were passionate about. People of wealth would hire artists to paint or sculpt their homes, giving artists a profitable and respectable job. In 1520, the famous artist Raphael died. Around that time, the High Renaissance started to end, and although there is no definite

The manipulation of perspective was not only significant for symbolic meaning. It was used as a visual tool in order to create the “magic” that the painting is known for. Because the vanishing point is approximately 5 feet from the bottom of the picture, which is practically floor level, this allows for both the top and bottom of the picture to come together and establishes an illusion of an actual structure. While this “created space” within the picture appears to be real, it is actually just one of the

Elie Wiesel used eyes as a motif in his narrative, Night, as windows to characters’ inner souls. He used eyes to assist the theme of surviving at all costs throughout the story by giving the audience an insight of people’s true emotions and status. Without eyes, we would have been blind to see past characters’ outer layers of fake emotion. There is more than the eye can see. One has to look deep into another’s eyes to see the true light or darkness within them.

Whether aware or unaware of The Gaze, it is a powerful institution in which the act of looking becomes a source of relational power. The practice of fixed attention upon something that is appealing to a viewer or that is the object of the image being viewed. The Gaze is a term made known by Jacques Lacan, psychoanalyst and theorist. A legend to film theorists, Lacan provided an understanding of the unconscious desire through the power of images. And how the act of passive voyeurism merely makes one the subject of the gaze ,in turn, making them the spectator. How the spectator responds may vary but through the theory of interpellation, we can understand that the object can also be an active player of The Gaze. Gender visibly falls in to this theory as a major aspect. The sexual pleasures of looking and being looked at are major parts of human nature, the psychological effects that they have are a powerful part of how we interact and engage.

The use of recurring rectangles and leading line of the top of the canvases directs the movement of the eye through the artwork. Your eye is carried through the painting to the horizon where the canvas dump just doesn’t stop.

The artist I chose to do research on was Rene François Ghislain Magritte. Magritte was born November 21, 1898, Lessines, Belgium to a wealthy family. He had three younger brothers, his father was in the manufacturing business, and his mother was thought to be a milliner before getting married. A man painting in a crematory and his mother’s suicide in 1912 influenced Magritte’s progress as an artist. Magritte painted to find comfort from his mother’s death. In 1916, he left home and studied art at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels for the next two years. Although he was not interested in his classes, he became friends with Victor Servranckx, who taught Magritte the three styles: Futurism, Cubism, and Purism. Then, in 1921, he joined the

Before this project, I had actually seen a few of Magritte’s paintings on social media that I thought were intriguing because they appeared dreamlike and unconventional. Then, because of this previous exposure, I expected to find many art pieces that were surreal. Surrealism is a genre I have always had an affinity for and have wanted to explore more, which is my main reason for choosing Magritte. The most important thing I learned while doing research on Magritte was about his role in the Surrealism movement and influence on other artists.

After reading the various short stories written by Edgar Allan Poe, it is clear he had a fascination with eyes. An eye can tell a lot about a human because it is the tunnel in which life enters the brain, creating the person’s personality, memories, and morals. The quote above is from “The Tell-Tale Heart” and illustrates Poe’s love for eyes and the gateway they provide into the perception we have not only of ourselves, but others as well. Through his short stories “The Black Cat,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” and “Ligeia,” Edgar Allen Poe emphasizes the importance of eyes and the role they play within the human and animal life.

In life, sometimes the expression, “eyes are the window to the soul” is used to convey the private thoughts in a person's mind. Without dialogue or communication, one can read a soul and how a person feels without any verbal contact. By gazing into eyes, emotions can be read as if a person were saying what they felt in the inside. Just as opening a window, abling one to look inside and finding out things never known or seen before. In Sherwood Anderson's, Winesburg, Ohio, windows are a common motif used among characters who show separation in their public and private identity.

The old proverb “the eyes are the windows to the soul” is expanded on by Naomie Harris in a way that exemplarities the true meaning of this proverb. When looking into a person’s eyes it is much easier to perceive what is inside them. This is identical to how windows work. It is far easier to see what is in the window when looking directly into it versus looking indirectly in. Similarly, when peering into a window or a person’s eye, when the light is right, you can see a reflection of yourself in them. On the surface “The Tell-Tale Heart,” by Edgar

Women mastered the same artistic techniques as men, often with less professional training, yet they employed those techniques differently. Women, for example, were one of the most popular subjects of artworks, and were portrayed uniquely by male and female painters. Morisot’s painting Before the Mirror and Manet’s painting, Before the Mirror, demonstate the technical differences between the artwork of men and women. Beond sharing a name, style, and subject, the paintings are extremely different from one another. In Manet’s Before the Mirror, which was painted in ????, ?? years before Morisot released her version of the painting, a half-clothed, white woman stands in front of a gilded, full length viewer with her back turned to the viewer. Around the mirror are flowers and other nice, vain objects; the women are standing in no specific or deniable place. Instead, she simply exists. The woman of the painting is dressed in a clinched, blue corset and skirt. Her neck and shoulders are bear, and she is faceless as her face does not reflect in the mirror. In Morisot’s version of “Before the Mirror, the woman is painted much ore slender, given delicate shoulders and neck, a natural waste, and dressed in flowing, plain, ivory clothing. Her body is turned slightly more towards the viewers, but her back still faces the viewers. In addition, the shoulders and side of the breast are exposed, and the face of the woman reflects in the mirror, but her exposed breast does not clearly reflect in the mirror. She is set in a bedroom; an unmade bed sits in the right hand side of the painting and below the mirror

My mom has a super nature power that she can easily tell if I lied or not by simply looking at my face. People say the gaze of human is the most powerful weapon in the world. Kral Ove Knaugsaard writes the article, “The Inexplicable,” to show her argument about the continuously influencing individual’s experiences can make other people weaker in their gaze and getting destroy.

He has intensively gazed at the cricket ball and recorded what he can see in the surrounding area still, with his eyes fixed upon the ball. This is where the doubling of images is produced. The double imagery is a product of our binocular vision, as we have two unique accounts of our surroundings from two separate eyes, (notice the doubling yourself, when you duplicate the same visual experiment). In addition to these characteristics the inclusion of central vision and periphery is distinctively present within this painting, it directs the viewer’s attention to the cricket ball instinctively. Central vision is the small finger nail sized area that is only in focus when you observe, it allows us to isolate limited details whilst periphery vision is the surrounding view that is in sight nevertheless is not necessarily conscious or detailed. Walters has depicted periphery vision within this painting by creating a blurred image with the adoption of dashed mark making with exception of the central focus. The blurred dashes give emphasis of shifting vision between the left and the right

The author talks about how he was able to discern things others might miss just by reading the eyes of the person he came into contact with. Eye movements and what we do with them is so hard wired into us that even those born blind tend to do the same motions as those who can see according to Navarro (2009). He goes on to give many different situations where the eyes give away what we are truly thinking even though what comes out of the mouth might be totally different. For example, Navarro (2009) gives the example of a neighbor asking you to help him move and the response is to shield the eyes while saying yes. Navarro (2009) states that the perceived notion is that it is an inconvenience for you but that you will probably still help him move. Navarro (2009) goes on to talk about eye movements, the myths that have been handed down and how they are used today but not always interpreted correctly. One such example states that looking away from someone is a sign of deception because you aren’t locking eyes with the person asking the questions.

As they say about a soul, a deep look beneath the layers of the eye can say a lot about a person. For instance, if you direct your gaze beneath the dark brown rims and black coloured pupils of my eyes , you’ll realize that the best parts of me can be depicted through my eyes. To start, as an introverted person, I tend to enjoy watching instead of participating. For example, when I’m sitting in class anxiously waiting for the bell to release an ear shattering ring, my eyes often wander to sections in the room where my peers gather in herds to chat loudly about their plans . Instead of joining them, I observe their ever-changing facial expressions as they discuss the latest gossip and laugh inwardly whenever something humorous is discussed.