Day 10/10: Most famous works of art

The Treachery of Images is a painting by the Belgian surrealist painter Ren Magritte,
painted when Magritte was 30 years old. The picture shows a pipe. Below it, Magritte

The
treachery
ofFrench
images
painted, "Ceci
n'est pas une pipe.",
for "This is not a pipe."

"The famous pipe.

people
reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe?
by How
Rene
Magritte
No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture "This is a pipe",
wikipedia.org
I'd have been lying!"
His statement is taken to mean that the painting itself is not a pipe. The painting is
merely an image of a pipe. Hence, the description, "this is not a pipe." It is currently on
display at the Art Institute of Chicago, on loan from the Los Angeles County Museum of
Art.