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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

Pipe, in French slang, is a euphemism for a male appendage.


994 posted on 12/13/2020 8:12:20 PM PST by sevlex
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To: sevlex

“Sigh...”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Magritte

“Magritte’s work frequently displays a collection of ordinary objects in an unusual context, giving new meanings to familiar things. The use of objects as other than what they seem is typified in his painting,[20] The Treachery of Images (La trahison des images), which shows a pipe that looks as though it is a model for a tobacco store advertisement. Magritte painted below the pipe “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” (”This is not a pipe”),[21] which seems a contradiction, but is actually true: the painting is not a pipe, it is an image of a pipe. It does not “satisfy emotionally”—when Magritte was once asked about this image, he replied that of course it was not a pipe, just try to fill it with tobacco.”

Ceci n’est pas une pipe

Magritte used the same approach in a painting of an apple: he painted the fruit and then used an internal caption or framing device to deny that the item was an apple. In these “Ceci n’est pas” works, Magritte points out that no matter how naturalistically we depict an object, we never do catch the item itself.”

So, it is neither a “male appendage” or a “pipe”, but a picture.


1,015 posted on 12/13/2020 8:23:31 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: sevlex

“Pipe, in French slang, is a euphemism for a male appendage”

Oh those Frenchies! It’s a painting by a Rene Magritte? It’s not a pipe pipe, it’s a painting of a pipe, therefore it is a painting of a pipe, not a pipe lol.

Petey


1,135 posted on 12/13/2020 10:42:07 PM PST by peteypupperdoo (Petey Pupperdoo)
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