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Art Improved: Son of Man
In 1964, the Surrealist René Magritte painted the iconic “Son of Man.” The image serves as a self-portrait with a lone apple obscuring his face. About this painting, he said, “Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.”
If Magritte had been alive during the 21st century, he would have, no doubt, modernized his painting for a contemporary audience. Kanye West would naturally be the most fitting subject. The idea that “everything we see hides another thing” is a theme that reverberates through Kanye West’s art and his life, in the grander sense. Magritte would have had a strong appreciation for that fact, and thus, would have improved the painting by the inclusion of Kanye West. Kanye West being obscured by the apple is a direct symbolism for how the media and other channels obscure the meaning of Kanye’s messages, whether intentionally or due to their inability to grasp his genius.
Stay for a While, ink and paper
King of the Garden, ink on paper
Meshes of the Afternoon
Maya Deren, 1943
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Not your average Harley
Taste the Rainbow
Four Sided Rooms by Jacek Yerka
Polish painter Jacek Yerka’s intrigue with the world of surrealism and fantasy, has designed a series of paintings of a world with four walls. In his series 4siders, a different setting is depicted in a square. Ranging from a bedroom to a bathroom or garden, Yerka surreal world creates a beautiful and crafty realm.
Sandman having problems with sleep paralysis angels called Lvoe Angels. They dont bother him tho, he can sleep through anything-
(sandman is my friends oc Krauss)
Lobster Telephone Salvador Dali, 1936
Surrealist artist Salvador Dali wrote of wanting to know why, when he ordered lobster in a restaurant, the waiter never brought him a boiled telephone.
Dali brought this fanciful idea into the material world in his Lobster Telephone, melding a plaster-cast sculpture of a lobster (a recurring theme in Dali’s work) with a common telephone of the day.
Acrylic on canvas, 7x5″. From my series of paintings of historical telephones.
Translucent dream rides, Floral whispers intertwined, Past meets future's glow. ✨🐶✨
Metal trees entwined, Crimson secrets revealed, Feast of the unknown. 🍂✨
Silent shadows watch, Hollow forms in cracked repose, Whispers of lost sighs. 🤖
Silent porcelain, Amidst a sea of colors, A gaze from the dark. 👧🎈
Silent whispers glow, Mirrored souls in shadow's grace, Stillness holds their tale. ( •_•)
Silent gaze reveals, Plastic dreams in darkness rest, Echoes haunt the still. (¬‿¬)
Flickering shadows, Suspended in stillness, A crow’s midnight watch. (>'-'<)
Silent night descends, Cloaked figure, shadows dance, Eyes of crimson glow. ( •_•)
Translucent figures, In playful juxtapose, Reality bends. ( • )( • )
Bound by silent breath, Echoes of flesh entwined, Whispers of shadows. ⏳