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| Artist | René Magritte |
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| Year | 1964 |
| Type | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 116 cm × 89 cm (45.67 in × 35 in) |
| Location | Private Collection |
The Son of Man (French: Le fils de l'homme) is a 1964 painting by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte.
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 short wall, beyond which is 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 at the elbow.
About the painting, Magritte said:
At least it hides the face partly. Well, so you have the apparent face, the apple, hiding the visible but hidden, the face of the person. It's something that happens constantly. Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present.[1]
The Son of Man resembles The Great War on Façades (La Grande Guerre Façades), another Magritte painting featuring similar imagery. Both feature a person standing in front of a wall overlooking the sea. The Great War on Façades, however, features a woman holding an umbrella, her face covered by a flower. There is also Man in the Bowler Hat, a similar painting where the man's face is obscured by a bird rather than an apple.
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The Son of Man is a prominent motif in the 1999 art heist remake of The Thomas Crown Affair. In this film, a copy of the painting is prominently displayed in the home of the protagonist. The love interest takes note of it as "the stereotypical faceless businessman". The protagonist of the film uses numerous accomplices, all dressed like the subject of the painting, to confuse the police while he enters the museum to apparently return the painting he stole earlier in the film. The bowler-hatted men all carry identical briefcases full of copies of The Son of Man.
It is also referenced in the 2006 film Stranger Than Fiction, and in the 2009 indie film (500) Days of Summer by a bowler hat with a green apple on it in the female protagonist's apartment.
In Gary Braunbeck's novel Keepers, the antagonist figures (the "Keepers" of the title) resemble the nattily-dressed, bowler-hatted figures of Magritte's painting. Also, in the opening scene of the book, the reference is directly made and explained to this resemblance because of an apple-scented car air freshener printed with the image of the painting hanging in the protagonist's car.
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In 1970, Norman Rockwell did a playful homage to The Son of Man as a 13" x 17.5" oil painting entitled Mr. Apple.[2] Rockwell used a red apple in lieu of a green one. Also, the self-reflexive head, which figured so prominently in Magritte's work, was replaced with the apple.
The painting appears briefly on the Michael Jackson video for his song “Scream”, on the “Gallery” section.
The painting appears in the Alejandro Jodorowsky film Holy Mountain, on a wall in the house of Jupiter.[3]
A parody of the painting with Bart as the man with the floating apple in front of his head can be seen briefly at the start of The Simpsons episode Treehouse of Horror IV. https://algargosarte.lacoctelera.net/post/2011/05/02/el-arte-la-vida-cotidiana-simpsons-y-clases-de
This painting also shows up at the end of 2009's Bronson starring Tom Hardy. British prisoner Charlie Bronson takes a hostage and turns him in to this particular portrait.
The music video to "Astral Traveller" by the band Yes features a similarly dressed man walking away from the camera throughout the video. He turns to the camera at the end of the video to reveal a large picture of a green apple floating in front of his face.
References [link]
- ^ In a radio interview with Jean Neyens (1965), cited in Torczyner, Magritte: Ideas and Images, trans. Richard Millen (New York: Harry N. Abrams), p.172.
- ^ "Norman Rockwell Original Oil on Canvas -- "Mr. Apple", an Interpretation of Magritte's "The Son of Man"". Norman Rockwell Original Oil on Canvas -- "Mr. Apple", an Interpretation of Magritte's "The Son of Man". https://www.natedsanders.com/ItemInfo.asp?ItemID=32520.
- ^ "Holy Mountain Screen Capture". Holy Mountain. https://twitter.com/#!/DarcyJWatt/status/190290670752251904/photo/1.
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The Son of Man (book)
The Son of Man is a nonfiction book by Indian author Andrew Harvey, published in 1998.
The book offers a model for "the authentic full-grown Christ-consciousness", which the author believes has been obscured for two millennia by a Christianity "full of weakness and mistakes and not a full-grown Christianity springing from the spirit of Jesus".
The Historical Christ
The first chapter is an historical introduction to this essentially mystical book, preparing for Harveys later chapters concentrating on mysticism, ecstatic visions and written in exalted language.
The author posits that many comforting myths have to be surrendered, along with the belief in the total veracity of the Gospels themselves. His human Son of Man turns out to be as infallible as the divine Son of God. As a result, this book is inspiration for those who are mainly interested in the mystical aspects of Christ and can be commended for some inspiring interpretations of Jesus' original teachings.
Jesus as Evolved Mystic
Son of man
"Son of man" is a phrase used in the Hebrew Bible, various apocalyptic works of the intertestamental period, and in the Greek New Testament. In the indefinite form ("son of man", "one like a son of man") used in the Hebrew Bible and intertestamental literature it is a form of address, or contrasts human beings against God, or signifies an eschatological figure due to come at the end of history. The New Testament uses the earlier indefinite form while introducing a novel definite form, "the son of man."
History
Old Testament
The Hebrew expression "son of man" (בן–אדם, ben-'adam) appears 107 times in the Hebrew Bible, the majority (93 times) in the Book of Ezekiel. It is used in three main ways: as a form of address (Ezekiel); to contrast the lowly status of humanity against the permanence and exulted dignity of God and the angels (Book of Numbers 23:19, Psalm 8:4); and as a future eschatological figure whose coming will signal the end of history and the time of God's judgement (Daniel 8:17).
Son of man (Christianity)
Son of man is an expression in the sayings of Jesus in Christian writings, including the Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles and the Book of Revelation. The meaning of the expression is controversial. Interpretation of the use of "the Son of man" in the New Testament has remained challenging and after 150 years of debate no consensus on the issue has emerged among scholars.
The expression "the Son of man" occurs 81 times in the Greek text of the four Canonical gospels, and is used only in the sayings of Jesus. The singular Hebrew expression "son of man" (בן–אדם i.e. ben-'adam) also appears in the Hebrew Bible over a hundred times.
The use of the definite article in "the Son of man" in the Koine Greek of the Christian gospels is novel, and before its use there, no records of its use in any of the surviving Greek documents of antiquity exist.Geza Vermes has stated that the use of "the Son of man" in the Christian gospels is unrelated to Hebrew Bible usages.
For centuries, the Christological perspective on Son of man has been seen as a possible counterpart to that of Son of God and just as Son of God affirms the divinity of Jesus, in a number of cases Son of man affirms his humanity. However, while the profession of Jesus as the Son of God has been an essential element of Christian creeds since the Apostolic age, such professions do not apply to Son of man and the proclamation of Jesus as the Son of man has never been an article of faith in Christianity.
Son of man (Judaism)
"Son of man" is the translation of Hebrew phrases used in the Hebrew Bible.
The Hebrew expression "son of man" (בן–אדם i.e. ben-'adam) appears one hundred and seven times in the Hebrew Bible. This is the most common Hebrew construction for the singular, appearing 93 times in the Book of Ezekiel alone and 14 times elsewhere. In thirty two cases, the phrase appears in intermediate plural form "sons of men". As generally interpreted by Jews, "son of man" denotes mankind generally in contrast to deity or godhead, with special reference to their weakness and frailty
Hebrew Bible
Numbers
Within the Hebrew Bible, the first place one comes across the phrase son of man is in Book of Numbers Bamidbar 23:19:
Job
In the Book of Job, we see son of man used a total of three times (all of which fall within poetry):
Psalms
Within the Book of Psalms, we find the same classical forms employed within Numbers and Job wherewith son of man is used in parallel with man to describe humanity as a whole.
The Son (play)
The Son (German: Der Sohn) is a five-act Expressionist play by the German playwright Walter Hasenclever. It was the first self-proclaimed, full-length Expressionist play to be produced, though its dramatic structure is more or less realistic. It takes as its subject the conflict between the generations and a rejection of the world in general by the young. It is a semi-autobiographical work.
It was written in 1912, first published in 1914, and first performed in 1916 at the Albert-Theater in Dresden, although Hasenclever had read the play at the literary cabaret Das Gnu in early 1914.Ernst Deutsch played the Son to great acclaim.
The play ends with the Son's parricide of his father, after which he "strides triumphantly over his father's corpse into a future full of glorious potential."
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The Son (Friday Night Lights)
"The Son" is the fifth episode of the fourth season of the television drama series Friday Night Lights. It is the 56th episode overall in the series. The episode first aired on DirecTV's The 101 Network on December 2, 2009. It then re-aired on NBC on June 4, 2010. The episode was hailed by critics and fans as one of the strongest episodes of the series, with unanimous praise for Zach Gilford's performance.
Plot
The main focus of the episode is on Matt Saracen, who must deal with the death of his father, Henry Saracen, a soldier who was killed in combat in Iraq. At the start of the episode, Matt replays a video message on his computer of his father wishing him a Merry Christmas and apologizing for not being able to make it home. Landry and Julie force him to stop playing the video and watch a movie with them to get his mind off things.
A wake is then held at the Saracen home. For most of the wake, Matt does not move from his chair, telling Julie that he really doesn't need to go anywhere considering everyone is coming to him. Later, Matt talks to an Army recruiter from the area, who speaks positively of Matt's father, saying that he was a very funny person. Matt becomes angry at this, telling the recruiter he has never seen his father smile before in his whole life. Landry gets Matt away from the recruiter before he is allowed to say anything else, telling Matt that the next night the two of them are going out with the Riggins brothers. At that point, Joe and J.D. McCoy show up at the house, but Matt, already angry and at a loss for words over the two of them showing up, shuts the door in their faces before walking away.
Podcasts:
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by Son Of Sam
Of Man
by: Son Of SamWhat is this that steals the breath?
what is this that horrifies?,
I've got an urge to kill
I've got a will to die,
And I'm creation
I'm destruction, ohhh
Where do they come from?
where do they hide?,
We are the Sons of man
bastardized
What is this that's tucked away?
what has turned this twisted mind?,
I am your darkest secrets
I am your living lies,
I'm creation
I'm destruction, ohhh
Where do they come from?
where do they hide?,
We are the Sons of man
bastardized,
Ohh, where do they come from?
where do they hide?,
We are the Sons of man
bastardized
WHOAH, WHOAH
WHOAH- What is this terrror?
what does it feed upon?,
WHOAH- Why have you left us?
the Daughters and the Sons?
I'M LIFE'S, CREATION
I'M LIGHT'S DESTRUCTION,
I'M LIFE'S, CREATION
I'M LIGHT'S DESTRUCTION, I'm creation
I'M LIFE'S, CREATION
I'M LIGHT'S DESTRUCTION, I'm destruction
I'M LIFE'S, CREATION