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	René Magritte
		Magritte began painting at age 12 and later studied for a short time at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
		Magritte remained one of the major representatives of surrealist art until his death on August 15, 1967.
		René Magritte was an artist who took mundane objects, pulled them through his imagination and forced them out the other side in such unreal combinations and relationships that they could cause the viewer to question the very nature of reality.
	www.dragonrest.net /histories/magritte.html (999 words)

	René Magritte
		Magritte's work was not intended to be symbolic but was closer to the inexplicable quality of dreams.
		Magritte, René François Ghislain (1898-1967), Belgian surrealist painter, born in Lessines.
		Magritte's work was first shown in the United States in New York City in 1936 and again in that city in two retrospectives, one at the Museum of Modern Art in 1965 (U.S. tour, 1966), and the other at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1992.
	www.springstun.com /rene_magritte.htm (232 words)

	Rene Magritte \| Biography (1898 - 1967) René Magritte
		Rene Magritte is today remembered as Belguim's greatest 20th century artist and one of the godfathers of surrealism.
		Magritte abandons the plastic qualities of pictorial art in favor of a more remote, colder style that portrays images from which all aestheticism had to be banished.
		Magritte and Georgette move to Paris to be closer to where it all happens.
	www.leninimports.com /rene_magritte.html (1414 words)

	Magritte
		The paintings of Rene Magritte (1898-1967), often mysterious and full of fascinating ambiguities, are, nonetheless, highly accessible.
		Magritte had a collection of such techniques which he used in different variations to create his surreal effects, effects meant, of course, to refocus the viewer's attention on the nature and relationships of the images displayed.
		Magritte's paintings are calculated; they sublimate emotional content almost to the point of total absence.
	www.culturevulture.net /ArtandArch/Magritte.htm (665 words)

	Rene Magritte
		Magritte's work was not easy to approach at the outset, however.
		"Magritte, who was a painter and a painter tout court, albeit an unusual one, was nevertheless more aware than any of his contemporaries of words and of the dubious status they had acquired.
		What is more, in Magritte's work this became a discipline of feeling, thinking, and behaving which he discovered and evolved for himself.
	www.artchive.com /artchive/M/magritte.html (1282 words)

	SFMOMA \| Exhibitions \| Rene Magritte (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Though he was a prodigiously talented draftsman, René Magritte was in essence a cerebral painter; his canvases served as vehicles for the translation of abstract ideas into visual form.
		Magritte was born in 1898, in Lessines, Belgium, a region whose dreary landscape and leaden sky may well have influenced his flat, moody style.
		Magritte painted in the chasm between our vision of the world and the world itself, between our attempts to rationalize every phenomenon, and the absurdity that continues to pervade life despite all efforts to suppress it.
	www.sfmoma.org /exhibitions/exhib_detail/00_exhib_rene_magritte.html (586 words)

	Brain-Juice \| Biography of René Magritte (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Magritte was born in 1898 in the small town of Lessines, a cosmopolitan area of Belgium that was greatly influenced by the French.
		Magritte wished to annoy the French public, whom he saw as egotistically self-satisfied in their established artistic tastes.
		While some art historians attribute Magritte's art to his desire to oppose and combat the triviality of everyday life, others suggest that his work goes beyond escapism and serves to reveal some of the murkier and complex aspects of the human condition.
	www.brain-juice.com /cgi-bin/show_bio.cgi?p_id=22 (1319 words)

	René Magritte Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Magritte's first one-man show, in Brussels in 1927, was a critical failure, and that year he moved to the Surrealist center, Paris, befriending poet Paul Eluard and André Breton, spokesman for the movement.
		In 1930 Magritte, never much one for political endeavors, broke with the Surrealists in a dispute over their dogmatic aims, burned most of his possessions associated with this time in his life, and returned to his native Brussels.
		Magritte had first presented this lesson in his teasing The Use of Words I (1928-1929), in which the inscription "this is not a pipe" is written beneath a painted image of one.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/rene-magritte (1008 words)

	Rene Magritte - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Rene Magritte - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Magritte, René François Ghislain (1898-1967), Belgian painter, one of the major surrealists.
		René François Ghislain Magritte was born in Lessines,...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Rene_Magritte.html (100 words)

	Magritte - Biography
		November 21, René François-Ghislain Magritte is born in Lessines, Hainaut (Belgium).
		Magritte contributes to the final issue of the "Révolution Surréaliste".
		Magritte and his wife move to the south of France in Carcassonne.
	www.magritte.com /2.cfm (329 words)

	Magritte
		Magritte, der bis 1930 einige Jahre in Paris gewohnt hatte, ehe er nach Brüssel zurückkehrte, steuerte auch das Titelblatt für Bretons (zu dem er ein wechselvolles Verhältnis hatte) programmatische Schrift zum Surrealismus bei.
		Magrittes Methode der Isolation alltäglicher Gegenstände, oft kombiniert mit Worten, enthalte zusammen mit seiner speziellen Collagetechnik Elemente, die später Robert Rauschenberg weiter entwickelt habe.
		Magritte malte neun Bilder (eines davon ist in der Ausstellung zu sehen) mit Häusern in der Dämmerung.
	www.cosmopolis.ch /cosmo7/Magritte.htm (1073 words)

	Guggenheim Collection - Artist - Magritte - Biography
		René François Ghislain Magritte was born on November 21, 1898, in Lessines, Belgium.
		Magritte's first solo exhibition in the United States took place at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York in 1936 and the first in England at the London Gallery in 1938.
		Magritte retrospectives were held in 1954 at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and in 1960 at the Museum for Contemporary Arts, Dallas, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.
	www.guggenheimcollection.org /site/artist_bio_92.html (372 words)

	René Magritte - Uncyclopedia
		Painter, sculptor, non-pipe, sex machine, and human waffle iron, Rene Terrell Owens Magritte (1897-1967) was the principal founder of the Surreappleism school of modern face-painting and a key architect of the International House of Pancakes.
		As a result, Magritte is often wrongly lumped in with the so-called "Surrealist" movement, led by talentless hacks such as Andre Breton, Joan Miro, and Dick Cheney.
		In fact, Magritte was, at least from his perspective, a hard pictorialist, who was only satisfied with his work if it conformed as closely as possible with his own limited visual conception of the world, which generally involved lots of fart jokes and plenty of Limburger cheese.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Magritte (626 words)

	René Magritte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Magritte was present when her body was retrieved from the water, and the image of his mother floating, dress obscuring her face, was to be prominent in his amant series.
		Magritte died of pancreatic cancer on August 15, 1967 and was interred in Schaarbeek Cemetery, Brussels.
		Magritte's work has apparently also inspired MTV jingle during the early 90's, with the paintings "ceci n'est pas une pomme" and "ceci n'est pas une pipe", referring to the MTV slogan "ceci est MTV".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Magritte (2059 words)

	René Magritte
		Régine Bertinchamp, Magritte's mother, suffered from depression; one night, while the rest of the family was asleep she fled to go to throw herself over a bridge, into the river Sambre.
		It was from this inspiration that Magritte decided to make each of his painting a visual poem; a quality he found present in De Chirico's works.
		Magritte held his first one-man exhibit was in Brussels in 1927, and as it was with his contemporaries, his art drew the ire of the critics and the conservative art crowd.
	www.famouspainter.com /rene.htm (618 words)

	René Magritte Art Paintings Print: PicassoMio.com Gallery
		Belgian painter, photographer and graphic artist Rene Magritte was a key figure in the surrealist movement.
		What characterises Magritte´s meticulously executed work is the way in which he removed the subjects of his work from their ordinary context and places them in new ones, creating startling juxtapositions and embuing the ordinary and the familiar with new meaning.
		Magritte relocated to Paris in 1927, where he became closely associated with Breton, Eluard and the city’s surrealist artists.
	www.picassomio.com /ReneMagritte/en (173 words)

	Rene Magritte
		Rene Magritte was born on November 21, 1898, in Hainaut, Belgium.
		Magritte began making paintings at the early age of 12, and his father put one of his paintings on display in the hallway of the family home.
		Magritte quit his job at a wall paper factory to go into graphic design in 1924, and he did much commercial work from 1924-1929.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/artists_retired/15764 (410 words)

	Art Exhibitions [LACMA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art]
		Magritteâs interests also foreshadowed other postwar artistic pursuits: a generation before the artists involved in pop art began working with images from popular culture, Magritte himself turned to this source.
		And before his death in 1967, Magritte even lived to see the impact of his own works on advertisements, popular culture, and television at a time when a number of the artists in this exhibition were coming of age.
		Magritteâs goal was to shake up a complacent Parisian public and the exhibition was greeted with total incomprehension.
	www.lacma.org /art/MagritteIndex.aspx (2205 words)

	René Magritte - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
		René François Ghislain Magritte (21 de noviembre de 1898 - 16 de agosto de 1967) fue un pintor surrealista belga.
		Magritte dotó al surrealismo de una carga conceptual basada en el juego de imágenes ambiguas y su significado denotado a través de palabras poniendo en cuestión la relación entre un objeto pintado y el real.
		Magritte explora en toda su obra el problema del espacio real frente a la ilusión espacial, que es el trasunto de la pintura misma.
	es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Magritte (836 words)

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	Hofstra Museum, Permanent Collection, Rene Magritte
		In his work, Magritte toyed with everyday objects, human habits and emotions, placing them in foreign contexts and questioning their familiar meanings.
		In 1929 Magritte moved to Paris and became acquainted with much of Surrealist theory, including their romanticized notions of scandal, crime and disguise.
		Magritte had two New York retrospectives, one in 1965 at the Museum of Modern Art and in 1992 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
	www.hofstra.edu /COM/Museum/Museum_collection_90_6.cfm (467 words)

	Rene Magritte at SpaightwoodGalleries.com
		In Magritte's world, the unconscious is fully conscious as in dreams and we simply see without emotions a new world existing all around us all of the time.
		Magritte's works are to be found in every important collection of modern art.
		Magritte prints, however, are rare and scarce: he came late to printmaking and he only made two lithographs and about 18 etchings between 1962 and his death.
	spaightwoodgalleries.com /Pages/Magritte.html (721 words)

	Rene Magritte Online
		Rene Magritte at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
		Rene Magritte in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
		All images and text on this Rene Magritte page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/magritte_rene.html (477 words)

	Rene Magritte biography - Oil painting Art reproductions - Art Sender
		Rene Magritte was born in Lessines, Belgium, on 21 November 1898.
		In 1922 Magritte got married with Georgette Berger, whom he had met at the age of fifteen and met again at in 1920.
		Magritte was inspired by Georgette and she became his model.
	www.artsender.com /artists/Magritte_Rene.htm (1378 words)

	Rene Magritte
		Rene Magritte (1898-1967) was born in Lessines, Belgium.
		Magritte resented any tendency to read his images as symbols.
		Magritte's images embrace the sense of what a thing is by making it what it is not.
	www.annalies.com /Gallery/Rene_Magritte/rene_magritte.html (372 words)

	René Magritte
		Né en 1898, René Magritte fréquente dès 1927 le groupe des surréalistes à Paris.
		Born in 1898, René Magritte joins from 1927, the surrealists group in Paris.
		Above all, we know his strange urban perspectives : "The dominion of light", 1954, the famous ceci n'est pas une pipe in "The trachery of images", 1948.
	jnfprod.com /MAGRITTE (170 words)

	Rene Magritte
		Rene Magritte is a surrealist painter, because he painted a mix of the real and the "surreal" or the unconcious mind.
		Rene Magritte was born in Lessines, Hainaut (Belgium), on November 21st, 1898.
		Rene Magritte died in Brussels on August 15th 1967.
	www.asds.org /AH03/sites/anyssa/magritte.htm (380 words)

	The Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access
		The Surrealist movement, which developed in the 1920s, was based on images from the world of dreams and the subconscious.
		During a three-year stay in Paris, Magritte, whose native city was Brussels, associated with the French Surrealists.
		In order for its mystery to be evoked, another immediately familiar image without mystery — the image of a dining room fireplace — was joined." It is in the surprising juxtaposition and scale shift of these common and unrelated images that their mystery and magic arises.
	www.artic.edu /artaccess/AA_Modern/pages/MOD_6.shtml (261 words)

	Rene Magritte (1898 - 1967) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Born as René Francois Ghislain Magritte in Lessines, Belgium, he studied at the Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels from 1916 to 1918.
		Rene Magritte - The Palace of Curtains, III 1928-29 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Belgian
		Rene Lochon, Portrait of a Bishop, 1657, 1657
	wwar.com /masters/m/magritte-rene.html (556 words)

	Rene Magritte
		"RenÈ Magritte was no doubt disappointed that, aside from the small circle of his kindred spirits among the
		Surrealists, the world needed over a quarter of a century to discover that his work has both philosophical and poetic content which corresponds to certain social and intellectual trends, particularly of the second half of the twentieth century.
		His friend Paul NougÈ has expressed the problem better than anyone else; what he said in 1944 still holds good: "We question pictures," he said, "before listening to them, we question them at random.
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