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René Magritte
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Magritte, René

Magritte (mä-grêt´), René
1898-1967
Belgian painter whose surreal works, such as _Steps of Summer_ (1938), depict ordinary objects in unexpected or implausible situations.

Magritte, René François Ghislain

Magritte, René François Ghislain (1898-1967), Belgian surrealist painter, prime exponet of the style of painting known as magic realism. Born in Lessines, Magritte had already begun to paint in his own distinct style by the time of his first solo exhibition in 1927. He is noted for works that contain an extraordinary juxtaposition of ordinary objects or an unusual context that gives new meaning to familiar things.

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing; they evoke mystery and, indeed,  when one sees one of
my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question "What does that mean"? It does not mean anything,  because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable."

  -  René Magritte

• painting _This Is Not A Pipe_
  • post punk indie rock track _This Is Not A Photograph_ MP3 (256k) by Mission Of Burma off of _Vs._ 12" on Rykodisc (1982)
    • "This is not a photograph, no! And These are not the Elysian Fields. This is not a bigot's head, no!"
• film _Zardoz_ (vhs/ntsc) directed by John Boorman (1973)
• a ridiculously grand movie from the same guy who directed the awesome _Deliverance_ (vhs/ntsc).  spotted the painting _Chateau de Pyrenees_ near the beginning as Sean Connery looks on wielding gun and loin cloth.
• enetity Chateau Flight
  • track _Auto-Power_ MP3 off of _Puzzle_
  • track _Mondorama_ MP3
• track _Castle In The Sky_ MP3 (192k) by Gong off of _Angel's Egg_ 12" on Blue Plate (1973)
• track _Hardcastles In The Sky_ MP3 by Emperor Penguin off of _Mysterious Pony_ on My Pal Good (2000)
   

_Time Transfixed_        Oil on canvas, 1938; 147 x 98.7 cm        Joseph Winterbotham Collection, 1970.426

_Not To Be Reproduced_ 1937 81x65 cm oil

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