Description
About me
A Belgian surrealist painter, Rene Magritte’s witty and thought-provoking paintings sought to have viewers question their perceptions of reality, and become hypersensitive to the world around them. Magritte’s mother was a suicidal woman, which led her husband, Magritte’s father, to lock her up in her room. One day, she escaped, and was found down a nearby river dead, having drowned herself. According to legend, 13 year old Magritte was there when they retrieved the body from the river. As she was pulled from the water, her dress covered her face. This later became a theme in many of Magritte’s paintings in the 1920’s, portraying people with cloth covering their faces.
Work / Education
Rene Magritte
René François Ghislain Magritte
Born: 21 November 1898; Lessines, Belgium
Died: 15 August 1967; Brussels, Belgium
Nationality: Belgian
Art Movement: Surrealism
Field: painting
Influenced by: Giorgio de Chirico
Influenced on: Neo Rauch, L. S. Lowry
Art institution: Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts (ARBA-ESA), Brussels, Belgium
