This painting by the Belgian surrealist is one of his most famous. An interesting fact is that Magritte himself did not come up with names for his paintings. He left it to his friends. After completing another painting, he invited friends to a brainstorming session – and that’s how the name was born. Art historians have written a lot about the meaning of this painting, but it is better to let the artist himself speak:

“At least it hides the face somewhat well, so you have an obvious face, an apple, hiding the visible but hidden face of a person. This is something that happens all the time. Everything we see is hiding something else, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in what is hidden and what the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a rather intense feeling, a kind of conflict, one might say, between the visible, which is hidden, and the visible, which is presented.”

Published by: Sergey Lashkov