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René Magritte

"This Is Not A Pipe Shirt", Zazzle

"The famous pipe ... I've been criticized enough for it! And finally ... can fill it up? No, it's just a representation. If I had written under my picture 'that is a pipe' I would be lying. " (René Magritte)

Ceci n'est pas une pipe", Los Angeles County Museum of Art
17thletter Photography, Flickr, 06.09.2010

In the works of Belgian painter are hilarious, from 1926, references to the pipe and assigned an apparent synonym for caring, anchored between the signifier and signified. The philosopher Michel Foucault gave him a test in 1973. In 1960 René Magritte had taken over the challenge in pen and colored pencil, for an apple - "Ceci n'est pas une pomme" - recovering the idea four years later, on a large screen (142 x 100 cm) .

René Magritte, "La coquettery" (self portrait) Paris, 1928

René Magritte, "La Trahison des images (Ceci n'est pas une pipe
), oil on canvas, 60.33 x 81.12 cm, 1928/29
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Michel Foucault: "First version, 1926, I believe: a pipe designed with care and, above (handwritten, with a regular handwriting, neat, artificial handwriting convent, as is possible find as a model on top of school notebooks or on a blackboard, after a lesson of things), this statement: 'This is not a pipe' .

René Magritte, "Sans titre: Pipe, 1944
drawing, pencil on paper

" The other version - guess the latter - can be found on the Dawn in the antipodes. Same pipe, same wording, same handwriting. But instead of finding a space juxtaposed indifferent, without limitation or specification, the text and figure are placed within a frame; itself is perched on an easel, and this, in turn, clearly visible on the boards of the floor .

René Magritte, "La trahison des images ", oil on canvas

Upstairs, a pipe exactly as it is drawn on the picture, but much larger. The first version only
staggering in its simplicity. The second multiplies visibly uncertainties volunteers.

René Magritte, "La trahison des images", 1952
ink on paper, 19 x 27 cm, private collection

The frame, standing, leaning against the bridge and resting on the wooden pegs, indicates that this is the picture of a painter: the finished work, exposed and brought to a potential audience, the statement that to explain or comment.

René Magritte, Ceci n'est pas une pipe (Les Deux Mystères)
engraving, 18.0 x 13.0 cm (28.0 x 27.6 cm sheet), 1966

And yet, this writing is not exactly naive that neither the title nor the work of its pictorial elements, the absence of any evidence that would mark the presence of the painter, the hardiness of the set, wide boards the floor - all this brings to mind the blackboard of a classroom, perhaps, a wipe cloth soon erase the drawing and text; may also delete one or the other only for correct the 'mistake' (draw something that will not actually a pipe, or write a sentence stating that it is indeed a pipe).

René Magritte, "Les Deux Mysteres," 1966
oil on canvas, 65 x 80 cm, private collection

"But this is still just the slightest uncertainty. Here's another: there are two pipes. Needless to say, instead: two drawings of the same pipe?

Dan crazier, "Surrealist Plumber" cartoon , 1997

Or a pipe and its design, or two drawings each representing a pipe or two drawings of which one represents a pipe but not the other, or two drawings that neither of them are or represent pipes, or a drawing representing not a pipe, but another picture that he represents a pipe, so I am forced to ask, referred to the phrase written on the board? " (" Ceci n'est pas une pipe ", Michel Foucault, 1973)

pipe Magritte and the couple's passports and Georgette Magritte Rene
-Berger, photo Michiel Hendryckx

Sources: here, here , here and here .
René Magritte, Lessines, Belgium, 1898
(René François Ghislain Magritte)
m. Brussels, Belgium, 1967
Michel Foucault, Poitiers, France, 1926
m. Paris, France, 1984