![]() ![]() He briefly adopted a colorful, painterly style in 1943–44, an interlude known as his " Renoir period", as a reaction to his feelings of alienation and abandonment that came with living in German-occupied Belgium. ĭuring the German occupation of Belgium in World War II he remained in Brussels, which led to a break with Breton. ![]() James is featured in two of Magritte's works painted in 1937, Le Principe du Plaisir ( The Pleasure Principle) and La Reproduction Interdite, a painting also known as Not to Be Reproduced. The Leuven City Archive preserves seven posters designed by Magritte.ĭuring the early stages of his career, the British surrealist patron Edward James allowed Magritte to stay rent-free in his London home, where Magritte studied architecture and painted. īetween 19, Magritte drew film posters under the pseudonym 'Emair' for the German sound film distributor Tobis Klangfilm. In 1936 he had his first solo exhibition in the United States at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York, followed by an exposition at the London Gallery in 1938. In 1932, Magritte joined the Communist Party, which he would periodically leave and rejoin for several years. He and his brother, Paul, formed an agency which earned him a living wage. Having made little impact in Paris, Magritte returned to Brussels in 1930 and resumed working in advertising. Galerie Le Centaure closed at the end of 1929, ending Magritte's contract income. 12, where he published his essay "Les mots et les images", where words play with images in sync with his work The Treachery of Images. On 15 December 1929, Magritte participated in the last publication of La Revolution Surrealiste No. In 1929, he exhibited at Goemans Gallery in Paris with Salvador Dalí, Jean Arp, de Chirico, Max Ernst, Joan Miró, Picabia, Picasso and Yves Tanguy. He became a leading member of the movement, and remained in Paris for three years. An illusionistic, dream-like quality is characteristic of Magritte's version of Surrealism. ĭepressed by the failure, he moved to Paris where he became friends with André Breton and became involved in the Surrealist group. In 1926, Magritte produced his first surreal painting, The Lost Jockey ( Le jockey perdu), and held his first solo exhibition in Brussels in 1927. In 1922–1923, Magritte worked as a draughtsman in a wallpaper factory, and was a poster and advertisement designer until 1926, when a contract with Galerie Le Centaure in Brussels made it possible for him to paint full-time. The work brought Magritte to tears he described this as "one of the most moving moments of my life: my eyes saw thought for the first time." The paintings of the Belgian symbolist painter William Degouve de Nuncques have also been noted as an influence on Magritte, specifically the former's painting The Blind House (1892) and Magritte's variations or series on The Empire of Lights. Also during 1922, the poet Marcel Lecomte showed Magritte a reproduction of Giorgio de Chirico's The Song of Love (painted in 1914). In 1922, Magritte married Georgette Berger, whom he had met as a child in 1913. įrom December 1920 until September 1921, Magritte served in the Belgian infantry in the Flemish town of Beverlo near Leopoldsburg. The paintings he produced during 1918–1924 were influenced by Futurism and by the figurative Cubism of Metzinger. He also took classes at the Académie Royale from the painter and poster designer Gisbert Combaz. During 1916–1918, he studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, under Constant Montald, but found the instruction uninspiring. Magritte's earliest paintings, which date from about 1915, were Impressionistic in style. Supposedly, when his mother was found, her dress was covering her face, an image that has been suggested as the source of several of Magritte's paintings in 1927–1928 of people with cloth obscuring their faces, including Les Amants. According to a legend, 13-year-old Magritte was present when her body was retrieved from the water, but recent research has discredited this story, which may have originated with the family nurse. Her body was not discovered until 12 March. On 24 February 1912, his mother committed suicide by drowning herself in the River Sambre at Châtelet. Little is known about Magritte's early life. He was the oldest son of Léopold Magritte, a tailor and textile merchant, and Régina ( née Bertinchamps), who was a milliner before she got married. René Magritte was born in Lessines, in the province of Hainaut, Belgium, in 1898. ![]() His imagery has influenced pop art, minimalist art, and conceptual art. René François Ghislain Magritte ( French: 21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist known for his depictions of familiar objects in unfamiliar, unexpected contexts, which often provoked questions about the nature and boundaries of reality and representation. ![]()
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