re: #329 SixDegrees

Heh.

A lot of times with modern art, it’s the story that goes along with it that’s important. The surrealist Rene Magritte often depicts figures with their faces obscured in some fashion. When Magritte was a child, his mother committed suicide by drowning herself; Magritte followed her footsteps to the riverbank and discovered her body, with her nightgown wrapped around her face.

Once you know this story, you will never look at Magritte’s work the same way again.

That is…haunting, to say the least.