The treachery of Images by Magritte!

A theme if not a clue:

"Ceci n'est pas une pipe"

One possible reading an art historian or semioticist might offer of
that well-known painting is that, as Magritte "says," in French, what
you are looking at is not a pipe! It is paint on a canvas that to
your eyes resembles a pipe - or better yet, pixels on a screen that
resemble the paint on the etc. etc.

The map is not the territory.

As in "This is not a game?" Relationship?

Work with me here. . .

I want the new tag-line for the movie to be about MORE than just the
ad people getting the idea of a game in to the public's
consciousness, so that later when they read a blurb in Newsweek about
some crazy online game, they go, "Oh yeah, game, like in the
commercial. How Mysterious. I must log on and buy things."




--- In cloudmakers@y..., jonnylewis@u... wrote:
>
> Ah... I missed out two paintings:
>
> The treachery of images (Magritte)
>
> What the water told me (Kahlo)
>
> But I have no idea whether these are part of the Georg/Beate story
or
> the Martin/David/Van Eyck story. Any ideas?