Rene Magritte

This image is a painting by German surrealist artist Rene Magritte. It’s a painting of a pipe, with the caption “Ceci N’est Pas Une Pipe”, French for “this is not a pipe”. She is trying to be clever and use text to state the obvious, somewhat being flippant and cheeky. The pipe is not a pipe, but a painting of a pipe, there is not a physical pipe in front of you, therefore it is not a pipe. This is just a playful way to include text in an image, were as lots of images anchored by text is reflecting political and social views.

My response to 'This is not a pipe'. Its a photograph of a landscape, an image I have taken myself but now anchored with the text "This is not a landscape, it is only dots". The dots are referring to pixels. The image is not a landscape, and while on the screen it is not even a physical photograph, but thousands of miniature dots making up an on-screen image. I liked this original idea but thought the image came across a little cliche, so decided not to peruse it.