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Todd Brugman
A Primal Dance, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel

2020

About the Item

“Ceci n'est pas une pipe” (This is not a pipe) by René Magritte illustrates (in every sense of ‘illustrate’) that he did not paint a pipe. No matter how accurate one is to rendering a pipe, it will never be a pipe, just a mere depiction or illustration of a pipe. If one were to carve, drill, and shape briar wood into a pipe, then you'd have a pipe. This is all quite obvious when spelled out, although one’s first reaction is that the painting is a pipe. This René Magritte painting speaks so much about the illustration of something vs. the embodiment of something. Everything has an intrinsic size. I could make a 100” X 100” painting depicting ecstasy, but I could not then scale it down to 10” X 10”, and with the same the result. An appropriate title of the new 10” by 10” painting would be “Ce n'est pas de l’extase,” “This is not ecstasy”. Therefore, if that is the only goal is to representing or illustrating physical objects, scale doesn’t matter. Yet, weather you are representing physical objects, splattering paint, or the other, scale is intrinsic to sentential experiences. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Yes :: Signature Location: back :: Wood Panel :: Portrait :: Original :: Framed: No
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    2020
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 18 in (45.72 cm)Width: 12 in (30.48 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Yardley, PA
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: 1036771stDibs: LU80215851242

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