heartbeatocean said:

So cool!

Mine's Jarvis Cocker from the band Pulp.

Duh..

HowComeYouDontCallme said:

I always think it is a dildo.

HamsterHuey said:

You and your dirty mind

My avatar is a vampire I created.

It means I suck the life out of threads.

ThreadCula said:

theodore said:

Dont worry,I wont hurt u
C'mere!

The Jolly Roger.....calling card of badasses for ages.....

ThreadCula said:

minneapolisgenius said:

Thanks! I glad Hamster Huey asked, because I had never seen the whole alterpiece before. Next time I'm in France, I'm going to check it out!

ThreadCula said:

U've got the best avatar on this site

furygirl said:

Thank you!

ThreadCula said:

yeah i wanted 2 tell u since a long time ago but i was bored...

eraclito said:

wasn't magritte morbidly fascinated with the covered head motif since as a child he saw a woman's body being pulled from the canal with her skirt over her head?

ZombieKitten said:

it was his mother

evenstar3 said:

well no wonder

evenstar3 said:

i think she committed suicide, right?

eraclito said:

yup.

evenstar3 said:

evenstar3 said:

wow, I never knew that story.

evenstar3 said:

Maybe it means that people love each other without seeing each other.

Or maybe, because of the story with his mother, it means that love and death are intertwined.

heartbeatocean said:

yeah, there's a lot of different things you can attach to it. yet doing that to this painting bugs me for some reason, i can't say why. found this quote of his on wikipedia-

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing; they evoke mystery and, indeed, when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question, 'What does that mean?'. It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.

evenstar3 said:

that is what I always thought about him though, it was weird just to be weird, not to mean anything special. He painted in the dining room and packed up all his paints every night to clear up for supper.

ZombieKitten said:

that is kinda weird

evenstar3 said:

Magritte is definitely about not attaching meanings to images. But I think it's fun to try. You can only go so far. This painting is actually much more interpretable than most of his others. Most of his others don't contain such pathos, if you could call it that.

ZombieKitten said:

I think they're about showing the world as exchangeable surfaces. They have an element of fantasy to them, but not the kind of fantasy that is tied to this world. Not the kind you could dream of and enter. They have an off-putting quality so that you can't actually enjoy them. Like they might fracture if you tried to believe in them.

evenstar3 said:

he used to wear a suit to paint! my kind of guy!

ZombieKitten said:

Did he paint in the dining room because he couldn't afford a studio? Or was it part of his process and ritual to open up and close up his paints every day? I'm interested to know why he did that.

And wearing a suit, maybe that put him in the mood, like he was playing his characters. He sounds like he might be a bit compulsive.

Reminds me a bit of David Lynch.

heartbeatocean said:

He was just really proper, so definitely part of the process (I can really relate to this totally!) it is kind of nice to put a start and a stop time to your creative process. I bet it helped him sleep too.