False Image Postcards 1968

These False Image Postcards, well, they're not dated, but they’re by Christina Ramberg, and look like they're made with some kind of printmaking technique. There's something kinda funny about the title, given that the image is so clearly mediated through a screen of some kind, you know, like a halftone. On the left, we have this woman with big blue hair, hiding her face with her hand, and on the right, her face is totally blank, just a smooth egg shape. The blue of the hair is almost electric, and those lines, those bold black lines, they just pop against the blankness of the skin. I like the way the grid kinda pushes everything into abstraction. It’s like Ramberg is asking us: what is an image anyway? Is it something real, or just a bunch of signs and symbols that we all agree on? It reminds me a bit of Magritte, actually, but with a darker, more feminist twist, and it's a pretty unique way of thinking about representation.