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The Son of Man (1964) by René Magritte

The Son of Man (1964) by René Magritte

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René Magritte’s The Son of Man (1964) is one of the most iconic and thought-provoking works in surrealist art. The painting features a man in a gray overcoat and bowler hat standing against a low wall, beyond which the sea and a cloudy sky stretch endlessly. His face is obscured by a hovering green apple, revealing only one visible eye peeking from behind it.

This surreal self-portrait challenges the viewer’s perception of reality, identity, and concealment. Magritte himself said of the painting: "Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see." The apple—ordinary yet deliberately placed—forces us to confront the tension between the visible and the hidden, the known and the unknowable.

Bold, mysterious, and endlessly interpreted, The Son of Man remains a timeless symbol of surrealism, individuality, and the human desire for truth.

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