May 22, 2007: "Painting of Tica" - this is not a photograph

Shawnee123 · 05-22-2007, 09:09 AM

I'm so confused.

I was joking, but not sure what I was joking about. I don't remember the word pipe from my two quarters of college French.

Am I just completely obtuse? (Please don't say it.)

Hime · 05-22-2007, 09:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123

I'm so confused.

I was joking, but not sure what I was joking about. I don't remember the word pipe from my two quarters of college French.

Am I just completely obtuse? (Please don't say it.)

It's a famous surrealist painting by Magritte. The idea is that one shouldn't mistake a representation of a thing for the thing itself -- each should be seen for itself, not for how it resembles the other one. It sort of refers to the discourse in French philosophy/ literary theory about the relation between the signifier and the signified.

Shawnee123 · 05-22-2007, 09:25 AM

All the art history classes I took in college and I missed that reference. I remember the Son of Man better, though.

Have you ever heard "Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War" by Paul Simon? Neat song.

xoxoxoBruce · 05-22-2007, 12:05 PM

Isn't every person you see in magazine ads, billboards and movies a painting? Either Photoshop or makeup artist.

Scriveyn · 05-23-2007, 01:20 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Isn't every person you see in magazine ads, billboards and movies a painting? Either Photoshop or makeup artist.

Very true. - Besides what's all the fuss about photorealism? Terry Pratchett has got it right: A camera is just a box with an imp inside, painting away like mad. We've (almost) all got one

Sundae · 05-22-2007, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123

All the art history classes I took in college and I missed that reference.

Don't fret chick. I have never actually seen the painting, only read about it, and heard it referenced. If anyone had asked me to describe it I would have ended up with ostrich sized egg on my face - I thought it was a pipe as in oil-pipe, water-pipe, heating-pipe etc. I had no idea it was a smoking type pipe.

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Have you ever heard "Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War" by Paul Simon? Neat song.

It is indeed.

05-22-2007, 09:09 AM	#1
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	I'm so confused. I was joking, but not sure what I was joking about. I don't remember the word pipe from my two quarters of college French. Am I just completely obtuse? (Please don't say it.) __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

05-22-2007, 09:25 AM	#3
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	All the art history classes I took in college and I missed that reference. I remember the Son of Man better, though. Have you ever heard "Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War" by Paul Simon? Neat song. __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

05-22-2007, 12:05 PM	#4
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Isn't every person you see in magazine ads, billboards and movies a painting? Either Photoshop or makeup artist. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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