Rene Magritte
Rene Magritte was a surrealist
introduction
Rene Magritte was born in 1898 in Lessines, Belgium. He died in 1967 when he was 68. Rene Magritte painted in an unexpected fashion. Sometimes he painted trains, eggs, fireplaces, guitar necks and a lot more!!!
early life and later life
When Rene Magritte was fourteen years old , for some reason his mother died so the Magritte's moved to Charleroi which is another city in Belgium.
When Rene Magritte was a little boy a hot-air balloon crashed into there house so they had to bring it in through the window!!!
Rene Magritte had two younger brothers.
Rene Magritte married a woman named Georgette.
Rene Magritte lived in Brussels then moved to Paris France and after three years he moved back to Brussels.
Rene Magritte designed wallpaper at a wallpaper factory, and sometimes he would paint advertising posters.
Magritte got his art supplies discounted because his wife worked at an art supply store.
- When Rene painted, he usually wore his suit and bowler hat.
style and medium
Rene Magritte used oil on canvas.
Rene Magritte wanted thought shown in his paintings.
He wanted you to think about his paintings and enter a magical world!!!
Rene Magritte painted mysterious, disquieting and unfathomable paintings.
He liked putting images together that were different but in some ways the same.
Magritte sometimes made something a lot bigger than it is in real life!
Rene Magritte might make a new object with two objects!!!
He usually made his paintings difficult to understand.
Rene Magritte gave his paintings weird titles so it was even harder to understand.
- Magritte was a surrealist. A surrealist is an artist who paints what they dream.