Rene Magritte
November 21,1898 – August
15, 1967
Surrealist
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Artist Name – Rene Magritte
Born – November 21, 1898
Died – August 15, 1967
County – Belgium
Medium – Painting
Artistic Style – Surrealism
Time Period – WWII Era
Known For – Juxtaposition of ordinary objects
Famous Artwork – “The Son of Man”
Magritte’s Style
 Painted in a Surreal style.
 Consummate Technician.
 His work frequently displays a
juxtaposition of ordinary objects.
 Fond of bowler hats and overcoats.
Surrealism
 Implies going beyond realism,
deliberately courted the bizarre and
irrational to express buried truths
unreachable by logic.
 A few artists along with Magritte used
scrupulously realistic techniques to
present hallucinatory scenes that defy
common sense.
Examples of
Magritte’s Surreal Art
Pieces.
Golconde
1953
The Treachery of Images
1928
What is Rene Magritte
most famous for?
Magritte painted it as a selfportrait. The painting consists of a
man in a suit and a bowler hat
standing in front of a small wall,
beyond which is the sea and a
cloudy sky. The man's face is
largely obscured by a hovering
green apple.
About the painting Magritte said,
The Son of Man
1964
“Everything we see hides
another thing, we always want
to see what is hidden by what
we see, but it is impossible.
Humans hide their secrets too
well....”