Contextual Studies #3

René Magritte from Belgium born 21 November 1898

Magritte said that his art is dislocating everyday objects from reality 

Treachery of images
The french text translates to "this is not a pipe."

The Castle Of Pyrenees

The Blank Checkplacing the objects where they wouldn't have been seen, and removing the objects that would you would have been able to see.

This image is the drawing of the egg and what will be there

The Son of Man

Rene Magritte influenced advertisement for a Volkswagen. Still used within advertisement today 

The false Mirror was the influence for the CBS logo 

giorgio de chirico

De Chirico’s quiet square evokes the classical arcades and statuary of antiquity (the sculpture is a torso of Aphrodite). In contrast, the passing train and perishable bananas suggest a sense of the contemporary and immediate. The distorted perspective and shadows undermine the conventions of pictorial space and time. De Chirico’s early works were enthusiastically embraced by the Surrealists, who saw in them a dream-like parallel existence.

Metaphysics - the branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, identity, time, and space.