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The Son of Man

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The Son of Man
ArtistRené Magritte
Year1964
MediumOil on canvas
MovementSurrealism
Dimensions116 cm × 89 cm (45.67 in × 35 in)
LocationPrivate collection

The Son of Man (French: Le fils de l'homme) is a 1964 painting by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. It is perhaps his best-known artwork.[1]

Magritte painted it as a self-portrait.[2] The painting consists of a man in an overcoat and a bowler hat standing in front of a low wall, beyond which are the sea and a cloudy sky. The man's face is largely obscured by a hovering green apple. However, the man's eyes can be seen peeking over the edge of the apple. Another subtle feature is that the man's left arm appears to bend backwards at the elbow.

About the painting, Magritte said:

At least it hides the face partly well, so you have the apparent face, the apple, hiding the visible but hidden, the face of the person. It's something that happens constantly. Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present.[3]

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Similar paintings

The Son of Man closely resembles two other Magritte paintings. The Great War (La grande guerre, 1964) is a variation on The Son of Man which pictures only the figure from the torso up. The Taste of the Invisible (Le Gout de l'invisible) is a gouache painting of the same subject.[4]

Another painting from the same year, called The Great War on Facades (La Grande Guerre Façades, 1964), features a person standing in front of a wall overlooking the sea (as in The Son of Man), but it is a woman, holding an umbrella, her face covered by flowers. There is also Man in the Bowler Hat, a similar painting wherein a man's face is obscured by a bird rather than an apple.

In popular culture

In 1970, Norman Rockwell created a playful homage to The Son of Man as a 330 by 440 mm (13 by 17.5 in) oil painting entitled Mr. Apple,[5] in which a man's head is replaced, rather than hidden, by a red apple.

The painting plays an important role in the 1999 version of The Thomas Crown Affair.[6] It appears several times, first when Crown and Catherine Banning are walking through the museum and she jokingly calls it his portrait, and particularly in the final robbery scenes when numerous men wearing bowler hats and trench coats carry briefcases throughout the museum to cover Crown's movements and confuse the security team.

The green apple was an ongoing motif in Magritte's work. His use of it in the 1966 painting Le Jeu De Morre, owned by Paul McCartney, inspired the Beatles to name their record company Apple Corps.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ Pound, Cath (5 December 2017). "Magritte and the subversive power of his pipe". The BBC. Retrieved 2018-01-05.
  2. ^ Chernick, Karen (April 12, 2018). "Why Magritte Was Fascinated with Bowler Hats". Artsy.
  3. ^ In a radio interview with Jean Neyens (1965), cited in Torczyner, Magritte: Ideas and Images, trans. Richard Millen (New York: Harry N. Abrams), p. 172.
  4. ^ David, Sylvester (1992). Magritte: the silence of the world. [Houston]: Menil Foundation. p. 24. ISBN 0810936267. OCLC 24846694.
  5. ^ "Mr Apple by Norman Rockwell brings $33,722 in online auction". Antique Trader.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ Howe, Desson (6 August 1999). "'Thomas Crown': An Affair to Remember". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2018-01-05.
  7. ^ Silver, Craig (5 December 2013). "How A Magritte Painting Led to Apple Computer". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-01-05.
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