Rene was a Belgium surrealist painter who based many of his pieces of work around the suicide of his mother in 1912, by drowning herself in the river sambre.
'The Red Model' is one of many paintings Rene drew which symbolizes the separation that death brings.
Psychoanalysts believe bereaved children shift between reality and illusion, in accordance to Rene the illusion is he wishes his mother was still alive but the reality is shes dead. So the painting asks where is the red model?
The red model has a flat perspective which adds to is surrealism as it doesn't look real. It also show two opposites through its visual denotation. I think this picture depicts Rene's feelings in an abstract way, acting as a sort of self portrait as it shows his state of mind. His continuous wonder of his mother, of why she isn't here and where she maybe. The feet could represent the memories left behind her. Were they real memories of dreams of Rene's imagination to help deal with bereavement.
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