Le Blanc Seing is an optical illusion. Magritte uses this technique to certainly illustrate how our mind sees an impossible object. The various elements of this improbable scene seem to have been assembled into coherent parts. This is purely fascinating.

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Françoise Dhulesia There is another painting of Rene Magritte which falls into this category; a window and a flying curtain. In fact there are many more wherein he has used this technique. Actually, I had lost this from my collections and found it by c… 

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Sushama Karnik We call this technique the blivet, French word, whose translation I just checked in English, the impossible trident: I have always been fascinated by that way to show us the world and puzzle us!

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Sushama Karnik "The art of painting is an art of thinking": L'art de peindre est un art de penser", here are Magritte's words.

"La trahison des images", this was the title of an exhibition that was held in Paris in 2016/ 2017 on Magritte's work, inviting the viewers to reconsider/ question their perception of "reality" .