When was the false mirror made

The False Mirror is widely acknowledged to represent the limitations of human vision. A mirror reflects what is places before it, whereas the eye is subjective, it filters and processes those images that it wishes to see. It does not merely reflect, but thinks and feels about those images that the brain processes.

The eye in The False Mirror also serves several purposes. As an observer we can look through the painting, we look through the eye towards the blue sky filled with white floating clouds. It is almost as if we are looking through a window that is in the shape of an eye.

What Magritte has managed to achieve with The False Mirror, is the sense that the observer is also being watched by the eye. Does the eye see what we see? The Mysteries of Horizon. Not To Be Reproduced. The Lovers II. The Human Condition. Please note that www. Click Image to view detail. It was completed in It is one of many pieces that were created in between World War I and World War II as artists attempted to come to terms with the horrible conditions that these conflicts caused.

Many of Mr. Magrittes counterparts such as Max Ernst, Man Ray and Salvidor Dali created similar renderings incorporating the human eye. The use of this particular body part is telling in that it seems to be challenging the viewer to question whether what they are seeing corresponds with what they think they know.

It is surrounded by what appears to be a normal optic opening, although not necessarily of human flesh. For me, the title holds the key to this work.

It makes me ask what we see when we look in the mirror. Raul, I think your comments address this too. The image of the blue sky in the eye as a false mirror does seem to suggest that we have a false vision of ourselves and that part of that false vision is our tendency to either imagine ourselves at the center of the universe or, as this image seems to suggest, to imagine that we are so big and so important that we kind of contain the universe. Or that everything we imagine to be true or real is perhaps just a figment of our imaginations!

Still, I liked your more optimistic interpretation, Karla! Nice work! This makes us become more objective instead of subjective. As you indicated people want to see what they want to see, while this painting gives me a impression of how the artist want people to see what this person has seen without our own judgment. It is interesting painting and i was very interesting to read your description.