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Biography of René Magritte
Name: René Magritte
Birth Date: November 21, 1890
Death Date: August 15, 1967
Place of Birth: Lessines, Belgium
Nationality: Belgian
Gender: Male
Occupations: artist
René Magritte
The Belgian artist René Magritte (1890-1967) was a Surrealist painter famous for bizarre images depicted in a realistic manner. Many of his paintings showed a dignified gentleman in a bowler hat.The Belgian painter René François Chislain Magritte in 1940 praised "that pictorial experience which puts the real world on trial," and his career bore out this aesthetic strategy. Born in Lessines, Belgium, on November 21, 1890, he would become a chief proponent of representational Surrealism. By the age of 12 he began drawing and painting and attended informal art classes in Chatelet, where his family then resided. A chance encounter with a plein-air painter inspired the budding artist.In 1912 Magritte's mother drowned herself, and the family moved to Charleroi shortly after the tragedy. At age 15, at the local fair, he met a girl named Georgette Berger, and though he would not see her again until 1920 the two eventually married in 1922. …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…unpredictability. At times he resembled the staid bowler-hatted gentlemen who peopled many of his paintings.Magritte minimized the importance of his achievements: "... life obliges me to do something so I paint." Yet he raised profound aesthetic issues of much importance for future generations, including the Pop artists of the 1960s. The fantastic content of his art had great appeal for the general public and became widely disseminated in commercial advertising and posters in the 1960s and 1970s. Magritte, who died in Brussels on August 15, 1967, created a world of enchantment with far-reaching consequences. Further Reading William Rubin, Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage (1967) locates Magritte in art history and is a fine introduction to Surrealism. Jose Vovelle, Le Surréalisme en Belgique (1972, in French), is a comprehensive look at Surrealism in Belgium. Numerous monographs on the artist exist, among these Suzi Gablik, Magritte (1970, reprint 1985) and James Thrall Soby, René Magritte (1965).
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