René Magritte, The Human Condition

Painting is like an illusion that deceives our eyes. A painter wants to reveal the mystery of this illusion. 

This is how René Magritte surprises more than onces, with his extraordinary paintings, which are completely illogical. 

Today we’ll analyze “The Human Condition”. Throughout his whole life he painted several similarly themed artworks, researching this bizarre relation between the vision of reality and the painting as a copy of it.

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Sources: Gimferrer, P. Magritte. Barcelona, Poligrafa, 1986

Torczyner, H. René Magritte. Zeichen und Bilder. Köln, DuMont, 1988

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