Everything we See Hides Another
The painting, The Son of Man, by the french artist René Magritte, intrigues me.
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The artist had this to say about the painting…
At least it hides the face partly. Well, so you have the apparent face, the apple, 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.
To me there is another layer to this painting, I think that not only does everything we see hide something else; but we also choose what we see… does that mean we choose what we hide? Not sure. But the thought is cool.