http://www.digitalparlor.org/sp07/blakesley7/taxonomy/term/10/all en http://www.digitalparlor.org/sp07/blakesley7/node/53 <div style="width: px" class="image-attach-teaser"><a href="/sp07/blakesley7/node/53"></a></div> <a href="http://www.digitalparlor.org/sp07/blakesley7/node/53"><img src="http://www.digitalparlor.org/sp07/blakesley7/sites/joe.english.purdue.edu.sp07.blakesley7/files/images/pipe_1.thumbnail.jpg" alt="The Treachery of Images" title="The Treachery of Images" class="image thumbnail" width="100" height="69" /></a><p>The Belgian surrealist painter Ren&eacute; Magritte (1898&ndash;1967) is well known for pointing out the unusual nature of visual perception and the sometimes illogical presumptions we make about the visual world. One of his most famous works is<em> The Treachery of Images</em>, also commonly known as <em>C&lsquo;eci n&rsquo;est pas une pipe</em> (This is not a pipe).</p> <p>In this painting, Magritte makes a verbal assertion (This is not a pipe) right beneath a visual representation of a pipe. Then he titles the painting <em>The Treachery of Images</em>.</p> <p><a href="http://www.digitalparlor.org/sp07/blakesley7/node/53">read more</a></p> http://www.digitalparlor.org/sp07/blakesley7/node/53#comment What is visual rhetoric? Painting Mon, 08 Jan 2007 17:15:20 -0500 David Blakesley 53 at http://www.digitalparlor.org/sp07/blakesley7