A cultural research into the opposite signifiance of this adjectives

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Magritte, La Condition Humaine

In front of a window seen from inside a room, I placed a painting representing exactly that portion of the landscape covered by the painting. Thus, the tree in the picture hid the tree behind it, outside the room.
Renè Magritte, 1933

Then paintings may include both impermeable, because they hide what is behind, that porous, because the concealed portion coincides with the image painted.

La Condition Humaine I (1933)

La Condition Humaine II (1935)
The Promenades of Euclid (1955)
@ Go to the official website of Magritte Foundation

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