Adaptation of Son of Man - Image by Ron English - All Rights Reserved - Click for full size
The Son of Man, or Le fils de l’homme by Rene Magritte depicts just one man in a bowler hat and suit, face obscured by a green apple and tackles the notion of conflict between what is visible, and what is concealed. The allegory here is that the aspects of a person we would like to see are often hidden from us by what is actually visible to our eyes.
Ron English seems to have expanded this concept to reveal “what is hidden” as being the truth of our inner structure, the physical foundation of our existence and the metaphysical / spiritual truth of death and decay – and the fact that through time everything changes.
Ron English is an American contemporary artist with a signature mash-up of high and low cultural touchstones, from superhero mythology to totems of art history.
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