In this essay, I will be contrasting Donald Judd’s untitled 1980 sculpture and Renne Magritte’s ‘The treachery of images’ 1929 painting. I will be weighing up the positives and negatives of both the sculpture and painting and finally concluding my essay with my opinion.
Renne Magritte’s ‘The treachery of images’ is a painting that of surrealism, which creates a three-way irony of an object that corresponds to words and image. The painting itself is a pipe, with a phrase in French “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” which translate to “This is not a pipe.” This phrase causes a confusion to the viewers as it is a pipe. However, Magritte’s point “can it be stuffed with tobacco, my pipe? No, it cannot be, it is just a representation. So, if I had written, ‘This is a pipe’ below the picture. I would have been lying.”- Renne Magritte in an interview with Claude Vial, 1966 (Magritte, 1979, …show more content…
Some artist have had thought that this image is quite odd, this is because they argue in a way questioning why Magritte decided to put the phrase below the image. “The placement of the pipe in Magritte’s ‘The treachery of images’ seems slightly odd, as it appears to be hanging in mid-air. There seems to be no connection between the pipe and its background.” (Labedzki) This in a sense it is true as there is no one holding the pipe in the image, which makes it seems wired. Moreover, it is only odd due to the statement, as otherwise, viewers would have thought that it was just an image of a pipe. The fact that it has ‘no correlation between the pipe and its background,’ also suggests that it could be a representation of the lost people in the world war one. Some people have also said that it portrays the eastern life as Fitzgerald said that ‘I see now that this has been a story of the west perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us unadaptable to Eastern
Renne Magritte’s ‘The treachery of images’ is a painting that of surrealism, which creates a three-way irony of an object that corresponds to words and image. The painting itself is a pipe, with a phrase in French “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” which translate to “This is not a pipe.” This phrase causes a confusion to the viewers as it is a pipe. However, Magritte’s point “can it be stuffed with tobacco, my pipe? No, it cannot be, it is just a representation. So, if I had written, ‘This is a pipe’ below the picture. I would have been lying.”- Renne Magritte in an interview with Claude Vial, 1966 (Magritte, 1979, …show more content…
Some artist have had thought that this image is quite odd, this is because they argue in a way questioning why Magritte decided to put the phrase below the image. “The placement of the pipe in Magritte’s ‘The treachery of images’ seems slightly odd, as it appears to be hanging in mid-air. There seems to be no connection between the pipe and its background.” (Labedzki) This in a sense it is true as there is no one holding the pipe in the image, which makes it seems wired. Moreover, it is only odd due to the statement, as otherwise, viewers would have thought that it was just an image of a pipe. The fact that it has ‘no correlation between the pipe and its background,’ also suggests that it could be a representation of the lost people in the world war one. Some people have also said that it portrays the eastern life as Fitzgerald said that ‘I see now that this has been a story of the west perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us unadaptable to Eastern