does anyone know anything about the artist RENE MAGRITTE?

Answer 1

Rene Magritte(b. 1898 – d. 1967) was a very important artist and a major representative of the Surrealist movement (Surrealists - artists active between 1924-45 whose work was based on irrational ideas, dreams, hallucinations and chance). Unlike his colleague Salvador Dali who painted his personal visions and hallucinations, Magritte depicted ordinary things from the real world in strange , unexpected and witty ways. e.g. an apple replacing a man's head; a pipe become the subject of a still life; a portrait of people with their heads covered in cloths; the sky 'raining" men in bowler hats.
look at his pictures http://images.google.com/images?q=magritte&gbv=2&svnum=10&hl=en&start=20&sa=N&ndsp=20
Read all about him:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Magritte
If you want to know which Museums have his paintings, then go to http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/magritte_rene.html

Answer 2

yeah!
he was cool- i used a lot of his images in my early years of graphic design-

he painted surrealism in a very simplistic way- unlike dali who filled a painting with many images

i love magrittes umbrellas- and his clouds were so "simpsons" cartoonish yet real!

modern art at its finest- he is very understated

catch his stuff at the MOMA in nyc

enjoy!!

Answer 3

He was a Belgian Artist who was Surreal before Surrealism. Thats about it, he was a fairly private person, not much more is know.

Answer 4

Nice man, great artist with wonderfull idea's but a bad painter (he even syas so himself).
Visit this very cool site:
http://www.magritte.be/