René François Ghislain Magritte (November 21, 1898 – August 15, 1967) was a surrealist artist, born within Lessines, Belgium.

Within 1912, Magritte's mother committed suicide by drowning herself in the river Sambre.

He exposed at a Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels for two years until 1918. When you took this period he met Georgette Berger, whom he married in 1922.

Magritte worked within the wallpaper manufacturing plant, & was the poster & advert designer until 1926 when a locate Galerie la Centaure within Brussels mass produced it conceivable for him to paint good-whale.

Within 1926, Magritte produced his first surrealist painting, Le jockey perdu, and held his number one exhibition inside Brussels inside 1927. Critics heaped abuse on the exhibition. Depressed per failure, he moved to Paris where he became friends with André Breton, and became taking part in the surrealist group.

Whenever Galerie la Centaure closed & a contract income ended, he returned to Brussels & worked around advertising. So, by having his brother, he formed an professional, which earned him the dwelling pay.

When you took a German occupation of Belgium in World War II he remained in Brussels, which led to the break sustaining Breton. At a instance he renounced a violence & pessimism of his sooner function, though he returned to the themes late.

The consummate technician, his function oftentimes displays the juxtaposition of average objects, or even an unusual context, yielding newly meanings to familiar items. A representational have of objects when differently what it seem is typified inside his painting, A Treachery Of Images (La trahison des images), which shows the pipe that looks as though these are the model for the tobacco store ad. Magritte painted in a image below the pipe, ''This is nonorth the pipe (Ceci n'eastern standard time pas une pipe), which seems the contradiction, however means that the image of the pipe is non itself a pipe. (Around his book, This Is Non the Pipe, French critic Michel Foucault discusses the painting & its paradox. )

His art shows a other representational style of surrealism in comparison the "automatic" style seen in works by artists like Joan Miró. Additionally to wow elements, his operate is typically witty & amusing. He besides created the total of surrealist versions of more notable paintings.

René Magritte described his paintings locution, His operate showed inside the United States inside Up to date York in 1936 and agaaround in this city in 2 retrospective exhibitions, a single at a Museum of Modern Art in 1965, and a more at a Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1992.

Magritte died of cancer in August 15, 1967 and was interred in Schaarbeek Cemetery, Brussels. Selected list of works
1920 Landscape 1922 The Station 1923 Sixth Nocturne 1925 The Bather and A Window 1926 The Lost Jockey, A Mind of the Traveller, Stunning News, A Hard Crossing & A Encounter 1927 The Murderer Threatened, A Human from either a Sea, A Weariness of Life & A Muscles of the Sky 1928 The Flowers of the Abyss, A Lovers, A Daring Sleeper, A Acrobat’s Ideas, A Automaton & Attempting a Impossible 1929 The Treachery of Images and Threatening Weather 1930 The Eternally Obvious 1931 The Voice of the Air and A Giantess 1932 The Universe Unmasked 1933 The Human Problem & A Unexpected Answer 1934 The Rape 1935 The Human Trouble, Revolution & A Traitorously Mirror & A Portrait 1936 Clairvoyance, The Therapist, A Philosopher’s Lamp, Negro spiritual Exercises & Forbidden Literature 1937 On the Threshold of Freedom and A New of Statues 1938 Time Transfixed and Steps of Summer 1939 Victory 1940 The Return 1941 The Break in the Clouds 1942 Misses de L’Isle Adam and A Misanthropes 1943 Universal Gravitation and Monsieur Ingres’s Dependable Days 1944 ? A Domain of Amheim 1945 Treasure Island and Black Magic 1947 The Cicerone, The Liberator & A Red Model 1948 Blood Will Tell, Memory, A Mountain Indweller & Famine 1948 or 49 Megalomania 1950 Making an Entrance, The Legend of the Centuries, Towards Pleasure, A Labors of Alexander and A Art of Conversation 1951 David’s Madame Récamier, The Song of the Violet & A Smile 1952 Personal Values 1953 Golconda, The Hearing Room & the fresco for the Knokke Casino 1954 The Invisible World & A Empire of Light 1955 Memory of a Journeying & A Mysteries of the Horizon 1956 The Sixteenth of September 1959 The Castle in the Pyrenees, The Battle of the Argonne, A Day of remembrance & A Glass Key 1960 The Memoirs of a Saint 1962 The Great Table, A Therapist & 'Waste of Effort 1963 The Great Personal, A Open Air, A Beautiful Year, Princes of the Autumn & Young Love 1964 Evening Falls, A Peachy War, The Son of Man and Song of Love 1965 Carte Blanche and Ages Ago 1966 The Shades, The Happy Donor, A Gold Ring & A Mysteries of the Horizon 1967 Good Connections, A Art of Dwelling'' & many bronze sculptures according to Magritte’s former works.