Emotional Symbols - Van Gogh, Munch, Magritte,

Aim: Each picture contains color, form, shape, and line to create an image that expresses and represents emotion.  Describe how the picture gets you feel the emotion you feel.  How does the picture convey emotion?

Do Now: Study the image and try to redraw it on loose-leaf with pen or pencil.  You may draw a small part (like the way the arches seem to melt together, or the man in the hallway) or the whole painting.  Don't look at your paper while sketching it.  Keep you eye fixed on what you are looking at and keep the sketch as a surprise to be seen at the last minute.

Le Faux Miroir presents an enormous lashless eye with a luminous cloud-swept blue sky filling the iris and an opaque, dead-black disc for a pupil. The allusive title, provided by the Belgian Surrealist writer Paul Nougé, seems to insinuate limits to the authority of optical vision: a mirror provides a mechanical reflection, but the eye is selective and subjective. Magritte’s single eye functions on multiple enigmatic levels: the viewer both looks through it, as through a window, and is looked at by it, thus seeing and being seen simultaneously. The Surrealist photographer Man Ray, who owned the work from 1933 to 1936, recognized this compelling duality when he memorably described Le Faux Miroir as a painting that “sees as much as it itself is seen.” [https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78938] Link