Rene Magritte
1898- 1967
One of the Greatest Painters Of All Time
Belgian Surrealist Painter
Artistically and stylistically influenced by the following painters; Giorgio de Chirico, Henri Matisse, Umberto Boccioni, Tsuguharu Foujita and Hieronymus Bosch
Education - Académie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, he left before graduating.
Cause of Death-
Magritte was 69 when he died after a long battle
with cancer on August 15, 1967
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Rene
Magritte Fast Facts
René François-Ghislain
Magritte was born on
November 21,1898
in Lessines, Belgium
On March 12. 1912, the
Magritte family is in chaos
when the bloated,
waterlogged body of the once
beautiful Adeline Magritte
(Rene Magritte's mother ) is
fished out of the river
Sambre. Adeline Magritte
threw herself into the
frigid waters.
Magritte married his
favorite model, Georgette
Berger In 1922
Rene Magritte Quotations
Life obliges me to do something, so I paint. --- Rene Magritte Quote
The extraordinary miracle of art is that it is intuitive with no
objective. --- Rene Magritte Quote
Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is
hidden by what we see. -Rene Magritte
You have no responsibility other than to realize your real desires, to
satisfy them, and to delight in doing so. ~ Rene Magritte Quote
My painting is visible images which conceal nothing; they evoke mystery and, indeed, when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable. - Rene Magritte Quote
The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom
bomb. - Rene Magritte Quote
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