Extra Credit
This is Paul Bond's Lao Tzu's Dream. (Do you know what Lao Tzu's name means? Old Teacher. ) Yeah, I'm a total STAN. Look at how he uses hyper-realism (the stones' texture) but utterly surreal elements...you know, the tree & such...knock the viewer a little off balance. Plus, it's a little mockery of the whole hipster cairn-building fad. He's good.
Do you want to see a few more? Check out Magical Realism Art by Paul Bond and enjoy!
Noah Lott 2nd Period
"The Son of Man" by René Magritte was made in 1964 as a self portrait. He famously used the green apple as a running motif in his works. It's an example of intertextuality and possibly even pastiche. The artist himself said that his goal with this piece was to get people to understand that everything is hiding something, and even when you find that hidden item, something else could be hidden inside. We as humans crave to find out what we do not know, even if we aren't supposed to know at all.