It is interesting because:
-It is the famous pipe. This is what René said: How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture 'This is a pipe', I'd have been lying!"
-His statement is taken to mean that the painting itself is not a pipe. The painting is merely an image of a pipe. Hence, the description, "this is not a pipe." The theme of pipes with the text "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" is extended in his 1966 painting, Les Deux Mystères. It is currently on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
In other words,
-For example, I have a solid pen with me. I can feel the texture which is rough and hard.
-However, when I draw it on a paper, I can only feel the texture of the paper not the solid pen. The texture of the paper is smooth and easily to be crushed unlike the solid pen rough and hard.
Hence, when I drew it on the paper, the image I have drawn is a REPRESENTATION of the pen.
In conclusion, what you have seen is not a pen because I am still holding the solid pen to finish the final touches of the image, like René said this is not a pipe, it is merely an image of a pipe.
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| ( Secondary resource: This is Rene Magritte, taken on 2/9/2015 ) |
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| ( Secondary resource: Pipe Painting by Rene Magritte, taken on 2/9/2015 ) |
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| ( Primary resource: My drawing about this is not a pen, taken on 2/9/2015 ) |



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