Magritte’s view on paintings
Magritte was an artist that surprised many with his creations. In most of his paintings, he always had an untold story, one that was not common to the eye of many. The painting, The Treason of Images, Magritte reproduced the image of a pipe but had the caption ‘this is not a pipe’ at the bottom of the painting. The link between the words and the picture is more honest than surprising. It was not a pipe; it was only a painting of a pipe. The painting was only a representation of an object that was used to smoke; in reality, the picture could not be called a pipe since it could not perform the action meant for a pipe. Magritte brought out the not so much dwelt argument on most paintings. His imaginations were limitless, and he always left people bewildered on what his next caption, translation of a picture would be.
Magritte’s view on paintings was that they were unreal and only represented the images of real things. To him, it was unfair to give a picture the name of a real object while in reality, it was just but a representation. Magritte’s understanding of words was that they should be used profoundly and to the measure of gratifying art but not to change the meaning of it. Additionally, he respected the use of words to convey more profound meaning to artwork and not just the surface meaning. Magritte used words effectively to communicate more on the art itself of painting more than what is represented. According to Magritte, there is more to the representation of art than words. There is more to say of a piece of art than the words that explain the painting. Magritte will is remembered for his outstanding paintings; that did more than present good work but gave untold stories in the captions that only he could come up with.