Magritte

Rene Magritte was undoubtedly one of the most enigmatic artists of the 20th century. He helped shape the visual language of Surrealism through rendering the most commonplace things as strange by placing them in uncanny scenes and circumstances. Classically trained, Magritte utilized the conventions of painting to subvert representation and highlight the oddness surrounding his recognizable images. There is a wonderful tension between his transparent technique and his opaque subject matter…

Rene Magritte was one of the leading artists of Surrealism. Here are his 10 most famous paintings including his surrealist masterpieces.

This surrealistic painting shows two men in black suits floating over a landscape showing a sky covered in grey clouds, empty road and distant mountains. The men are, in fact, the elements of the picture that the viewer would probably notice first, not only because of their strange situation in the space but also because of the dark colors used to paint their suits, contrasting the soft grayish tone of the clouds and the foggy blue hue of the mountains below the scene. It is a very…

Rene Margritte --- It's raining men, hallelujah!

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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

A lot of the paintings by Rene Magritte has this man as the main subject. The man's face is covered, just as if the dove flew into the frame just as Magritte "snapped" the picture. The man's eyes can't be seen, but we can see the bird's face.

This is Not a Pipe is a painting by famous Belgium artist René Magritte. The work shows a pipe, but below it, the artist there is a quote by the artist in