it just makes me so happy that I’m not the only one who sees faces in everything!
La race blanche by René Magritte, 1937. Oil on canvas.
From Masterworks Fine Art:
Magritte deconstructs the female form, depicting an eye, an ear, a mouth, and a nose precariously balanced upon one another but lacking the coherency to form an identifiable face. Though the legs and arms appear relatively proportionate, the large, round belly and perfectly circular breasts contribute to the disproportional nature of this figure. According to Whitfield, this “last and most imposing work in the Race blanche series was executed in the spirit of a Picasso bather.” Though Magritte neither confirmed or denied this resemblance, he found the comparison to be a “very lucid reaction” (Whitfield, no. 78).
