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| The Son of Man is a 1964 painting by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. Magritte painted this as a self-portrait. The painting consists of a man in an overcoat and a bowler hat standing in front of a short wall, beyond which is the sea and a cloudy sky. In the original the man's face is largely obscured by a hovering green apple. However, in this version we have a pipe floating in front of the man's nose to where the man's eyes can be seen looking directly past giving the man a bit of a mysterious side. Magritte said, "...hiding the visible but hidden, the face of the person. It's something that happens constantly. 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 and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present." |
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