![]() ![]() This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. You can’t really appreciate most great art, unless you see it in the flesh, in real life. The first time I saw a surrealist painting in actual real life, (The Flavour of Tears by Rene Magritte, Barber Institute, Birmingham.) It stopped my everyday homeless mind in its tracks, and staggered me, from that moment it changed my entire way of looking at life….it was the most visually striking thing I’d ever seen. You can say don’t like a certain piece of art, or a style of art….if you understand why…….but to say you don’t like any art is just a simple unconscious way of rejecting the unknown through unconscious fear of being less in the World……as a former homeless person, that fear of less-ness in comparison to others was something I loved with everyday…….but simply looking at art enabled me to see the World, and my own experience of it differently…….by seeing and experiencing something new outside of myself, allowed me to see myself differently, and change my own sense of being and life. I eventually wrote a 10,000 University Dissertation on The Concept of Beauty in Art as a student…….before that, I was a homeless person who used to just wander through art galleries to keep warm and dry during bad weather. The true of all things is,….we never really know whether we like something unless we have an understanding of it, or unless we actually try it……only then can we make a real honest informed enjoyment……I never understood art when I was younger as I found it difficult to comprehend, so I studied it to try and understand it….to figure out why I saw it as nothing more than a picture I either liked or I didn’t….which is a valid a reason as any when understanding art. literally anything…….it protects our sense of self-identity. It is very difficult for anyone to admit they lack knowledge, education, or experience of something,….it could be anything! So our unconscious mind often leads to us stating a verbal n negative rejection to things….”I don’t like art, a type of music, travel, extreme sports etc”…. No- one likes to admit that their education, life experiences, thoughts, or mind are more narrow or limited than they really are……our unconscious mind and sense of self constantly tries to protect us from our own limitations, especially in comparison to others. One of (not the only one) the reasons for reacting in a negative way like this is we are faced with our lack of knowledge and experience of things in the World, which is mainly due to education or a broader more diverse opportunities/experiences through life that open our minds to new ways of understanding, seeing, and experiencing life. It’s a natural commonplace unconscious reflex to defend a persons sense of self identify and self esteem. People often say they don’t like something as an unconscious defense mechanism to things they don’t really understand. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present.” The Son of Man is not only one of the most famous paintings of Magritte but also an iconic work of Surrealism which has appeared in popular culture numerous times. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. He said about the painting, “Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. Magritte created two similar paintings the same year: Man in the Bowler Hat, which portrays a similar figure whose face is obscured by a passing bird and The Great War of the Facades, which depicts a woman in a similar seaside setting with flowers blocking her face. However, his eyes can be seen peeking over the edge of the apple. The Son of Man, a self portrait of Magritte, depicts a man in an overcoat and a bowler hat but his face is largely obscured by a hovering green apple. ![]()
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