The work that I selected was The False Mirror, 1928. I chose it because I was first surprised by the huge eye covering the whole canvas. But then I realized its different iris replaced by blue, cloud-filled sky, which looks very comfortable and relaxing to me. Intentionally painting a sky scene as the iris, the artist created a situation where viewers can see through the eye, as through a window and being looked at by it simultaneously. The title “False Mirror” also challenges viewers to question what they see and the function of their eyes.

(Actually, I chose to reproduce this work because the other one I researched in the looking out assignment was Malevich’s The Black Square and that one might be too easy to reproduce in my opinion.)