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Ghislain Magritte Essay

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Rene Francois Ghislain Magritte was born November 21, 1898 in Lessines, in the province of Hainaut, Belgium, he was the oldest child and his father was a wealthy manufacturer. In 1910 at age 12 he started taking drawing lessons and in 1912 his mother had committed suicide by drowning herself in the river. The legend says that Magritte was present when they had removed her body was retrieved and is said to be the source of several of Magritte’s painting in 1927 to 1928 of people’s clothing covering their faces like his mother. Magritte’s painting can date clear back to 1915 and those early paintings were impressionistic in style. From 1916 to 1918 Magritte studied at the Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts and most of works through this time and …show more content…

This era is known to be Renoir Period and during this time he would produce fake paintings of Van Gogh, Picasso, and Paul Cezanne, later to be taken about by his brother Paul Magritte. Throughout Magritte’s career his main style was a surrealist style and he would rarely stray away from this from of work, most of the work that he had created portrayed similar scenes and recurring themes. Magritte’s favorites happened to be creating a painting inside of a painting, floating rocks, he would also use many inanimate objects, within a human figure to create the styles that other artists did not use. Also during Magritte’s career he would use famous paintings created by other artists and put his twist of surrealism on the painting. One of the most famous paintings he recreated was The Balcony by Edouard Manet. In this painting Magritte showed his style by changing the images in the original painting to coffins. He would create unique designs getting the viewers to look outside of the box and focus on the distinctive features that were not originally

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