I'm just wondering - whats the name of the piece, and who is the artist?
2006-11-06 14:30:23 · 9 answers · asked by cwido25 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
The Son of Man (French: Le fils de l'homme) is a 1964 painting by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte.
Magritte painted it as a self-portrait. The painting consists of a man in a suit and a bowler hat standing in front of a small wall, beyond which is the sea and a cloudy sky. The man's face is largely obscured by a hovering green apple.
The Son of Man should not be confused with The Great War on Facades (La Grande Guerre Facades), another Magritte painting featuring similar imagery. Both feature a person standing in front of a wall overlooking the sea. The Great War on Facades, however, features a woman holding an umbrella, her face covered by a flower. The painting should also not be confused Man in the Bowler Hat, a similar painting where the man's face is obscured by a bird rather than an apple.
About the painting Magritte said,
Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well....
The Son of Man is privately owned.
The painting was used in the 1999 film The Thomas Crown Affair and in the 2004 short film Ryan. According to the Beatles Anthology, the apple in the Apple Records logo was designed to resemble the one in this Magritte painting.
The cloudy sky might represent the mystery of the image, and how things are hidden from us. The endless sea might represent the endless possibilities of mystery
2006-11-07 21:37:46 · answer #1 · answered by samanthajanecaroline 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Apple Face Painting
2016-10-06 11:02:02 · answer #2 · answered by corbo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rene Magritte is your rave fave artiste and the painting of the man with the bowler hat with an apple in front of his face is called The Son of Man. Margritte was pretty much a surrealist, but was a part of the dada movement that challenged the defintion of art.
What contemporary artists do you like? Who's the most impressive one?
2006-11-06 18:10:51 · answer #3 · answered by vertically challenged 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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I'm just wondering - whats the name of the piece, and who is the artist?
2015-08-06 07:40:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The painting is by a famous surrealist by the name of Rene Magritte. I can't remember the name of the painting but am looking it up now and will post a link to it.
It's called 'The Son Of Man.'
Here is some information about the painting and the artist:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Son_of_Man
2006-11-06 14:38:56 · answer #5 · answered by Doc Watson 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Son of Man - 1964 painting by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte.
2016-03-17 01:40:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bowler Hat Painting
2016-12-14 12:40:49 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did my art history thesis on Rene Magritte and the surrealist movement. This is "The Son of Man." It was one in a series of "bowler hatted" men painted by him at one point in his career. It was suggested that he always obscured the face of the man in a subconscious effort to remain somewhat anonymous himself. He never wanted to draw attention to himself...only his work.
2006-11-07 00:19:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"The Son of Man" by Rene Magritte.
2006-11-06 14:37:17 · answer #9 · answered by Frosty Lemmon 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋