Children - René Magritte - This is not an apple

1964, Ceci n'est pas une pomme: It is not the first time that Magritte denies in the title what is depicted in the painting; As with the famous pipe, the author wants to emphasize the illusory character of art in this work: the painted apple is not an apple, it remains a painting. Magritte likes to confuse us, to confuse mind and eye. And so we no longer know what is a dream and what is reality...

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