Tag: surrealism
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Paintings: Making Something out of Nothing
My art colleagues and I are relatively new to grading visual analysis papers. Consequently, there have been many passionate discussions about marking rubrics and the responses we encounter in examination scripts. One particularly memorable disagreement concerned René Magritte’s The Human Condition. A student proposed that behind the easel, which blends almost seamlessly into the landscape, might…
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De Chirico’s Paintings that Cannot be Seen.
Everyone knows of this mysterious place called the mind, but few can describe it. Even fewer can describe what it looks like because no one has seen it for real. I would bet that if one is asked to even hazard a guess at what it looks like, this attached image of an iceberg depicting…
