Son of Man

Son of Man. Bottle Cap Art. , About the art , This mural, created by West Virginia artist David Heatwole, pays homage to both the surrealist and pointillism art movements through the creative use of recycled bottle caps. Originally created by artist David Heatwole, with help from students, this work has been lovingly restored by Moorefield artist Ryan Zirk and depicts René Magritte's painting "The Son of Man"., About Rene Magritte , 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 low wall, beyond which is the sea and a cloudy sky. The man's face is largely obscured by a hovering green 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."

, About David Heatwole , The career of David Frederick Heatwole as an artist may have begun 238 years ago when his ancestors arrived in the Shenandoah Valley from Germany. The immigrant Heatwoles were craftsmen and storytellers, and today at the age of 42, as an 11th-generation artist, David Heatwole lives and works in the shadows of Washington, D.C. His father, a renowned sculptor of science fiction and fantasy folklore, fostered Heatwole's artistic pursuits, and his mother's carefree humor encouraged him to continually peruse the purity of discover., To learn more about Magritte's work, go here: http://www.renemagritte.org/the-son-of-man.jsp, To learn more about Heatwole's work, go here: http://davidheatwole.weebly.com/bio.html, #Bottlecapart. . This historical marker is in Wardensville in Hardy County West Virginia