The Red Model

The Red Model
Oil on Canvas
1935, 74 cm x 50 cm

Rene Magritte made masterful fantasies of everyday objects such as an old pair of shoes. He made more paintings of this subject but this was one of his earliest of shoes turning into feet. He has meticulously painted the details of the pebbles on the ground, the dust covered toes, laces on the boots, and the grain of the wood fence. Magritte makes fantasy by painting reality carefully with unexpected changes. I think I'd like to see a prosthetic version of this painting come to life. 

 

Below is someone's attempt at a modern recreation of The Red Model created using Photoshop and two separate photographs
 

Rene Magritte, Philosophy in the Boudoir. 1947.