Magritte –Le Miroir Faux (The False Mirror, Der Falsche Spiegel)

By choosing a human eye as a lens to look at the sky, Magritte essentially

raises a question about humans (represented by the eye, our visual

connection to anything else) seeing, both literally and figuratively, the

world (represented by the sky). In any type of philosophy, the way that

humans perceive the world, their location, is essential to understanding

the general human condition.

The hard contrast of the black pupil against the sky iris suggests that the

sky is in fact behind the pupil. With this realization, it would seem that

by looking at this eye, one is indeed looking through the eye and into the

brain. The inside of a human, then is the contents of the world. The

world is only a product of human’s imagination and creation.