"In Rene Magritte's painting ""The Son of Man"", what is obscuring the man's face?"
The Son of Man The Son of Man The Son of Man () is a 1946 painting by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. It is perhaps his most well-known artwork. Magritte painted it as a self-portrait. The painting consists of a man in an overcoat and a bowler hat standing in front of a low wall, beyond which are the sea and a cloudy sky. The man's face is largely obscured by a hovering green apple. However, the man's eyes can be seen peeking over the edge of the apple. Another subtle feature is that the man's left arm appears to bend backwards
The Son of Man at the elbow. About the painting, Magritte said: "The Son of Man" closely resembles two other Magritte paintings. "The Great War" ("La grande guerre, 1964") is a variation on "The Son of Man" which represents only the upper torso and head of the bowler hatted man, with the apple completely hiding his face. "The Taste of the Invisible" ("Le Gout de l'invisible") is a gouache painting of the same subject. Another painting from the same year, called "The Great War on Facades" ("La Grande Guerre Façades, 1964"), features a person standing in front of a wall overlooking the sea (as