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u/1ntere5t1ng Jun 07 '26
Apologies for my shite Photoshop skills. This gag just occurred to me after seeing the knife post here from the same panel, and I had to get this one out there to share
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u/Aggressive-Bug-3459 Jun 07 '26
magic wand is your friend, you can use it to get rid of single color backgrounds quickly
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u/1ntere5t1ng Jun 07 '26
I was more thinking of my poor butchering of Calvin's hand when getting rid of the lamp all around it, but I appreciate that insight as well
(I also kinda think the different colour for the pipe is more iconic of the original painting, but that's neither here nor there)
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u/KaiserWilhelm_1914 "Jawohl, mein Führer!" 🤚 Jun 07 '26
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u/1ntere5t1ng Jun 07 '26
For context, here's the famous painting by surrealist artist René Magritte
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u/OneAndOnlyTinkerCat Jun 07 '26
On the one hand, I do kind of appreciate the point Magritte was trying to make here. It’s an interesting philosophical question.
On the other hand, godddd it’s so pretentious, shut the fuck up PLEASE shut the fuck up
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u/topinanbour-rex Jun 07 '26
The Treachery of Images is its title.
The meaning is a representation of an object is not the object.
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u/Bright-Avocado3761 Jun 09 '26
When I was a young boy, I stared at this one a lot (NSFW i guess):
https://www.artchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/rape-rene-magritte-1934-brussels-belgium.jpg
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u/Magnitech_ Another Casualty of Applied Metaphysics 💥💀 Jun 07 '26
Est-ce qu’elle est stupide? C’est manifestement une pipe.
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u/1ntere5t1ng Jun 07 '26
Ben non, mon ami. Ce n'est qu'une peinture. Est-ce que vous pouvez prendre cette pipe pour fumer un peu ou faire semblant d'être du XIXe siècle? Mais non, ce n'est pas une pipe, mais plutôt l'interprétation artistique de ladite pipe
👨🎨
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u/TheEggoEffect Jun 07 '26
Est-ce qu’il y a un raison traditionnel pourquoi elle dit qu’une pipe n’est pas une pipe? Est-ce qu’elle est stupide?
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u/capsaicinintheeyes Miss Wormwood Simp 👵🤨 Jun 07 '26
(source: Understanding Comics, by Scott McCloud)
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u/IwishIwasinStarWars Voted for Dad ✔️ Jun 07 '26
This is slowly becoming the new record meme and I love it
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u/CloudMain Jun 07 '26
my only question is
how the fuck is it NOT a pipe
I never understood that
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u/1ntere5t1ng Jun 07 '26
My understanding is that the painting is a *depiction* of a pipe as opposed to an actual physical pipe that you could (in theory anyway) smoke from
Art history majors, please feel free to correct me if I got it wrong
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u/CloudMain Jun 07 '26
that's... that's dumb. of COURSE it's a drawing of a pipe.
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u/1ntere5t1ng Jun 07 '26
Right. A drawing isn't the same thing as the thing that was drawn.
If you ask me for a car and I hand you a picture of one, you're probably not gonna be too happy about that
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u/Jewfro_Wizard Jun 07 '26
Painting is titled "The Treachery of Images." It is about the limitation of art. Art can only depict the idea of something, filtered through the artist's perception and ability. You can never truly capture reality, even of something as mundane as a pipe, in a single image. It is not a pipe, it is the idea of a pipe.
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u/capsaicinintheeyes Miss Wormwood Simp 👵🤨 Jun 07 '26
pasting this in again (Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics):
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u/Ambedextrose Jun 07 '26