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Art Improved: Son of Man
In 1964, the Surrealist René Magritte painted the iconic “Son of Man.” The image serves as a self-portrait with a lone apple obscuring his face. About this painting, he said, “Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.”
If Magritte had been alive during the 21st century, he would have, no doubt, modernized his painting for a contemporary audience. Kanye West would naturally be the most fitting subject. The idea that “everything we see hides another thing” is a theme that reverberates through Kanye West’s art and his life, in the grander sense. Magritte would have had a strong appreciation for that fact, and thus, would have improved the painting by the inclusion of Kanye West. Kanye West being obscured by the apple is a direct symbolism for how the media and other channels obscure the meaning of Kanye’s messages, whether intentionally or due to their inability to grasp his genius.
