Rene Francois Ghislain Magritte (1898-1967) better known as Rene Magritte, was the painter surreal Belgian who most influenced the painting of his country in the twentieth century.
Known for his witty and provocative images, he sought with his work to change the preconditioned perception of reality and force the viewer to become hypersensitive to their surroundings.
Magritte endowed surrealism with a conceptual charge based on the ambiguous picture game and its meaning denoted through words, questioning the relationship between a painted object and a real one.
René was always very independent and kept his artistic ideas and principles above fashions or group interests.
His style, also called "magical realism", investigates the ambiguous relationships between words, images and the objects that they detonate.
In his paintings it is common to see games of duplications, absences and representations within representations.
He also manipulated everyday images as a game with which he explored the limits of perception.
The irony, the subversion of the optical values of the painting Traditional and puns were themes that interested René Magritte.
His paintings lack the complexity, drama, or convulsive appearance of other surrealist works and often feature nods or references to traditional painting.
