MC Escher

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZqKwdqBmSE

Ceci n'est pas un pipe. It's a computer screen's representation of a photograph of a painting of a pipe.

He was Belgian, but one of my favourites too. :)

what then?

short answer: It's not a pipe, it's a painting.

well, it is no pipe
it is a picture of a pipe

i think the painter of it (forgot his name), wanted us to think more about paintings and other things we see
for example, first thing you'll see here will be a pipe, but then you see that it isn't, so you start thinking about what else you can see in the painting/recognize in it
i could be wrong of course, but i don't think so

It's Matisse, the whole point is to think outside the box and realize it's a painting of a pipe, not a pipe itself. He's part of the modernist movement to counter the traditional immersive painting

It's not by Matisse, it's by René Magritte.

fuck, always confuse the two, sry

At first I thought you were serious and I wanted to kill you. Then the picture loaded... well played, lad.

Alright. It's a cube.
Wait...how....what?

This is part of a much large piece of art, which I have hanging above my bed right behind me as I type this. :D

"He's quite fat!"

what the fuck, man?!

can be done with perspective and warped branches...

Oh you!