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Nov 21, 2011 · View all 372 artworks. Rene Magritte lived in the XIX – XX cent., a remarkable figure of Belgian Surrealism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
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Rene Magritte: List of works - All Artworks by Date 1→10....
- The False Mirror, 1928
‘The false mirror’ was created in 1928 by Rene Magritte in...
- The Son of Man, 1964
‘The Son of Man’ was created in 1964 by Rene Magritte in...
- The Treachery of Images (This is Not a Pipe)
'The Treachery of Images' cleverly highlights the gap...
- Collage
‘Collage’ was created in 1966 by Rene Magritte in Surrealism...
- The Victory, 1939
‘The victory’ was created in 1939 by Rene Magritte in...
- The Blank signature, 1965
‘The blank signature’ was created in 1965 by Rene Magritte...
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- The Treachery of Images, 1929
- The Lovers II, 1928
- The False Mirror, 1929
- Personal Values, 1952
- Golconda, 1953
- The Son of Man, 1964
Painted when Magritte was 30 years-old and living in Paris, The Treachery of Images is part of a series of paintings featuring images paired with words. This particular piece shows a pipe with the French phrase, “Ceci n'est pas une pipe” (“This is not a pipe”). Magritte wanted to highlight that the painting is not a pipe, but rather a picture of on...
This oil-on-canvas painting depicts a man and a woman locked in an embrace and kissing each other through cloths wrapped around their heads. The mysterious scene invites viewers to question why the lovers are unable to truly communicate or touch. It’s difficult to speculate on a singular meaning, but the painting’s hues allude to certain themes. Th...
The human eye was a subject that fascinated many Surrealist artists, as they believed it represented the bridge between the self and the external world. The False Mirror, painted in 1929, features a single eye that consumes the entire canvas. It stares out at the viewer with realistic detail and texture. The eye’s pupil floats against a cloud-fille...
“I don't paint visions,” Magritte once said. “To the best of my capability, by painterly means, I describe objects—and the mutual relationship of objects—in such a way that none of our habitual concepts or feelings is necessarily linked with them.” In no other painting does this shine through as it does in Personal Values. Here, the artist depicts ...
Although Magritte lived a quiet, middle-class life in Brussels, he was able to turn the ordinary into something wondrous. Golconda depicts a surreal suburban scene where countless nearly identical men dressed in dark overcoats and bowler hats float in the air like balloons. Magritte himself lived in a similar environment and dressed similarly to th...
Perhaps Magritte’s most famous work, The Son of Manpainted in 1964 is the artist’s take on a self-portrait. The oil painting features the artist himself, dressed in an overcoat and a bowler hat, standing next to a short wall with a seaside setting in the background. His face is largely obscured by a hovering green apple, but if you look close enoug...
Masterpieces of Rene Magritte. Young Girl Eating a Bird, 1927; The Lovers I, 1928; The Lovers II, 1928; Attempting the Impossible, 1928; The False Mirror, 1928; The Treachery of Images, 1929; The Annunciation, 1930; The Human Condition, 1933; Elective Affinities, 1933; The Red Model, 1934; The Collective Invention, 1934; La Clairvoyance, 1936 ...
Clouds, pipes, bowler hats, and green apples: these remain some of the most immediately recognizable icons of René Magritte, the Belgian painter and well-known Surrealist.
As Magritte biographer David Sylvester brilliantly described, his paintings induce "the sort of awe felt in an eclipse." Magritte was fascinated by the interactions of textual and visual signs, and some of his most famous pictures employ both words and images.
- Belgian
- November 21, 1898
- Lessines, Belgium
- August 15, 1967
A major figure of the Surrealist movement, the Belgian artist René Magritte created some of the most extraordinary and iconic images of the 20th century. Seeking to “make the most everyday objects shriek aloud,” Magritte transformed familiar, commonplace objects into unfamiliar and ambiguous scenes through surprising juxtapositions, scale ...
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Along with Dali's Persistence of Memory, Magritte's masterpieces The Son of Man and The Treachery of Images become the iconic images of the Surrealism movement. Magritte brought an entirely new way of looking at art, with the paintings, as well as some of the sculptures which he created, during the course of his career.
