FRENCH TOYS

In this essay Toys, it explains how a child see the toy. A toy: " is the reduced copies of human objects, adult world. " A toy has always a social connotation constituted by the myths or modern adult life, for example, the toy represented the army, the medicine, the style, the school (picture1), the style etc. It shows what is life is or what it looks like by some of the humans, but the child has to live by himself, not have a pre-illustration. Children must make their own judgments.

All these toys are preparing the child to accept the world of adult. But, the child associated this toy with himself, as a user, not the creator. Almost the toy is created by plastic, it's not natural, it's chemical. But because it's chemical, the toy is not the reflection of the real life, the real environment, and natural material around us (wood, rock). We destroy the pleasure to the child to discover the real pleasure of nature.1

1 Mythologies by Roland Barthes, Toys, p.53, edition : Noodday

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Shirley Temple, 1937

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Magritte, The Key to Dreams (1930). Oil on canvas, 81 x 60 cm

In this essay, John Berger speaks about the image and what the meaning. It's important to know the way we see somethings, things, objects are affected by what we know or the value we have, what we believe, the culture around us, the education etc. Before and now, we see the world differently, especially on the term of art. This difference illustrates the evolution of the life, the perspective of what we thought: " The perspective makes the single eye the centre of the visible word." 2

René Magritte is an excellent example of this idea of what is the reality of what we see and what we believe. In the: The key to dreams , Magritte said, “It is a union that suggests the essential mystery of the world. Art for me is not an end in itself, but a means of evoking that mystery”, he plays in his painting with the reality, the illusionist and the surrealism. 3

2. Ways of Seeing, John Berger: Chapter 01, British Broadcasting Corporation and Penguin Books.

3. Alexander storey, keep reading and writing to make it a better world, the key to dreams, website (click on),11/18/13.

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