René Magritte

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Born René François Ghislain Magritte in 1898 in Lessines, Belgium, René Magritte was the most celebrated Belgian artist of the twentieth century. At the core, he was a surrealist artist whose paintings challenged the relationship between labels and images.

His best works are famous for using thought-provoking and witty images, as well as portraying everyday objects like smoke pipes in odd contexts.

Magritte’s unusual imagery has had a major influence on conceptual art, minimalist art, and pop art. Most of his works are in the hands of private collectors, though some are exhibited at major museums like The Guggenheim and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He passed away in 1967 in Brussels, Belgium.

This is not a pipe – Magritte’s most famous painting

This is Not a Pipe is a painting by famous Belgium artist René Magritte. The work shows a pipe, but below it, the artist there is a quote by the artist in French “Ceci n’est pas une pipe,” which when translated to English, means “This is not a pipe.” The work was created in 1929 […]

René Magritte’s dreamlike painting Personal Values – The meaning behind

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Although inspired heavily by surrealism, René Magritte’s work stands out easily from other well-known surrealist painters such as Max Ernst and Salvador Dalí. Additionally, unlike other surrealist painters, Magritte’s work was not based on characters and scenes from the painters’ subconscious. Rather, Magritte focused on painting day to day objects in absurd and illogical combinations.

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