the most honest thing | fine art by Jon Cooper

the most honest thing | fine art by Jon Cooper

...Something is Wrong Here

"What I do is the art of the absurd" Rinat Voligamsi

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Jon Cooper
Mar 30, 2025
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Art is inherently disingenuous. And no one said this better with their art1 than Magritte did with his piece, La trahison des images.

René Magritte, The Treachery of Images, 1929

He’s right. That’s not a pipe. And it lacks a z axis. It looks like a pipe. It looks three dimensional. But if it could waddle and quack it still wouldn’t be a duck. 🦆

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