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Rene' Magritte was born November 21st 1898 in Belgium. He spent his childhood and youth in Chaleroi, an industrial city were life was very hard. In 1913 when Rene' was 15 years old his mother committed suicide by drowning herself. From 1916-1918 he studied off and on at the Art academy in Brussels. He began painting in 1920. He dicovered surrealism around 1925 and in 1926 he painted "The Lost Jockey" which according to Magritte himself was his first successful surrealist painting. His trade mark style is naturalistic surrealist. His paintings represent recognizable scenes or objects and unites them with a world of dream and fantasy. In 1956 Magritte was awarded the Guggenheim Foundation artists fellowship, after that he began to photograph. He continued his artistic explorations in a range of media for the next 11 years. In 1967 Rene' Magritte died.

The Red Model


The Red Model 2


Victory


Personal values


The tomb Of The Wrestlers


The Heartstring


The Sixteenth of September


L'art de vivre


Le Mariage du Minuit


Le Sihcle des lumihres


Lovers 1


Lovers 2


Le Domaine Enchante'I


Le Domaine Enchanté II


Le Domaine Enchante'III


Le Domaine Enchanté IV


Le Domaine Enchante'V


Le Domaine Enchante'VI


Le Domaine Enchante'VII


Le Domaine Enchante'VIII

The Companions of Fear


Surprise Answer


The Son Of Man
"The Son of Man": "At least it hides the face partly. Well, so you have the apparent face, the apple, hiding the visible but hidden, the face of the person. It's something that happens constantly. Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present."
-Rene' Magritte

The human Condition



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