The two key points that I found was the difference of “representation” and “reflection”. Though out history pictures have been made to depict life likeness while others focused on the concept of abstract feelings as love. The paintings by Dutch artist Peter Claez, still life in 1642. Was considered that it was just a mirror representation of the scene but in fact it has a lot of symbolic meaning for Christians with the use of the fish, wine, bread. A painting made by surrealist artist Rene Margritte of a pipe, but under the pipe he wrote “this is not a pipe”. Potentially warning his viewers that it was not “real” pipe but a representation, it was an image of a pipe but because it couldn’t be used it was just a representation.
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