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TheDescendantofKehAn — 'This is Not a Tree'
Published: 2011-04-07 04:30:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 1479; Favourites: 27; Downloads: 46
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Title: "This is Not a Tree"Artist: The Descendant
Medium: Found images on the 'net and a rudimentary photography program.
In 1929 Belgian artist René Magritte had a strange thought; namely that he'd never painted anything...only images that represented things. His famous painting The Treachery of Images represented this...
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"This is not a pipe" reads the French text, and it is utterly true. It is a painting of a pipe!
In this quick digital doodle, using entirely images I found on the net (I hope that's good with DA rules...), we see not a tree! No, no, no! We see instead a pixelated representation of a pony who would like to be a tree!
This is not so much a commentary on Symbolism and the works of René Magritte as it is an exploration of what The Descendant can get away with on his work computer over a lunch break using the hyper-basic photo-manipulation software that came installed on the thing...
...Fluttershy, here, I believe is original studio work, so all rights are Hasbro's and Ms. Faust's!
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Comments: 28
Very glad you liked it!
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Hey, I stole it from Magritte, you can steal it from me!
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It's the digital picture of a pony who would like to be a tree.
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I heard of Rene Magritte! He's awesome.
And great idea
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Yay, French art ! \o/
However, there's a spelling mistake. In French, all nouns got a gender, and a tree is male (sounds silly, I know xD). So it's "un arbre", and not "une arbre".
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Technically, Magritte is Belgian, not French, so it's Belgian art. Unless you purely meant the language of course
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This is the part where I admit I took German in High School.
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heh, kinda misses the point of the original though... which was that it was a PICTURE of exactly that thing it said it wasn't.
Still, nice
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Heh, you're the first to point that out.
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Isn't it funny how our lives kinda loop around and around themselves like that?
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Treachery of Images is one of my favorite things
As is Fluttershy
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Two great tastes that go great together!
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Glad you approve! Transcending hypothetical intellectual boundaries is one of the myriad of services I provide!
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Oh my God, I love The Treachery of Images~ <3
Also, this is very hilarious. I'm saving this in case dA gets mad and deletes it.
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"Treachery of Images" is one of my favorites too, it just kinda is a smirking little thing that makes ya' go "huh"!
Does this really violate any rules? I hope not...I didn't think it did...
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Well, if it did, I would expect that only 5% of those deviantart "stamps" would be gone by now. Then again, on an old account I had, they deleted my stamps on the same grounds, but... I think my situation was because of a mod in a bad mood. You'll be fine~
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