After looking into the illustration on the cover of the box set; a name kept reappearing. Rene Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist who was well-known for integrating the concepts of reality and illusion into his paintings¹. Many of his paintings were similar to the illustration on the Pink Floyd cover of the faceless man. The image below is one of Magritte’s most famous paintings “The Son of Man”.

Magritte’s painting shows a man in a suit standing still in front of a gloomy background with an apple covering the man’s face. In my view, this painting eliminates the emotional connection with the observer as it does not present any facial characteristics.
His attire and posture lacks personality. The most significant aspect of this painting is the apple. The beauty in Magritte’s painting is that it is intriguing to observe something so ordinary but yet so obscure. Magritte, in his other works as well, tends to place ordinary objects in a strange context.