biography
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Magritte, René (François Ghislain)
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pronunciation:
[magreet]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1898–1967)
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| biography:
| Surrealist painter, born in Lessines, SC Belgium. He studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts (1916–18) in Brussels, and became a wallpaper designer and commercial artist. He was a leading member of the newly formed Belgian Surrealist group (1924), and produced works of dreamlike incongruity, such as ‘Rape’, in which he substitutes a torso for a face. His major paintings include ‘The Wind and the Song’ (1928–9) and ‘The Human Condition’ (1934, 1935). He was acclaimed in the US as an early innovator of the Pop Art of the 1960s. |
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