The False Mirror.

This image was painted by Rene Magritte, painted in the year 1928 in Paris.  This image Rene Magritte painted questions people whether what they are seeing corresponds with what they think they know.  Rene Magritte was a surreal artists and liked to paint surreal paintings, this was taken part in Paris between the World War I and World War II The style of this type of art work has also been referred to as “magical realism.”

The colours used in this particular art piece are blue, light blue, white, shades of brown, red and pink.  The colours were used to relate to a real eye but add a surreal image instead the eye to make the image look very unique. 


On this image, I can see the artists used round shapes, oval shapes mostly to show that it's the shape of a real eye.  The surface on this image is very round and sharp, it stands out a lot because it looks 3 dimensional, the eye is centred in the middle of the canvas.

The artist has painted the image full size, the image covers the whole canvas, leaving no gaps.

This image can relate to people who have been confused between the World War I and World War II also questioning why there has to be a war between people and why it's so hard to find and give peace, it can also relate to a person daydreaming.

Surrealism artists have painted a lot of images during the 1920's, such as Max Ernst with his art piece The Elephant Celebes in the 1920's in London.

This painting 'The False Mirror' is of an eye, but instead of painting a real eye instead, Magritte painted an image of the sky and clouds, making it more surreal and imaginary, it looks like the person is daydreaming, or they're unconscious, the image is looking at its viewers making them question the image.  This painting is a landscape, Dimensions  L54 cm x W81 cm.  Rene Magritte has called this art piece 'The False Mirror' because it looks like a reflection of a mirror or a glass, it is named 'The False Mirror' because it isn't real, his work is surreal, by the name 'The False Mirror' tells us it isn't real. 

'The False Mirror' painting was painted with oil paint and a brush, the artist made this piece look very clear for us to see, he didn't add any marks or any extra lines, he made it very sharp, to add in more of the surreal like texture.

This art piece makes me feel relaxed as I love looking at the sky, but in an unusual way, it also doesn't make sense to me why he added the sky into the eye, but that was his aim to make it unrealistic.  The atmosphere in this particular art piece is very edgy and sharp, its very clear, you're looking at the sky, it's a little bit creepy that the eye is looking directly at it's viewers but it adds the unrealistic vibe to it, the atmosphere is relaxed and wide, opened and bright, this art piece overall is remarkable.