The False Mirror
ArtistRene Magritte
Year1928
MediumOil on canvas
LocationMoMA, New York
About The False Mirror
A giant eye fills the canvas, with clouds reflected in the iris. The pupil is a black void. The painting questions whether we see the world or only our own projection of it. Man Ray and other Surrealists admired it.
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