1. Rene Magritte
November 21, 1898 – August 15, 1967

2. Rene Magritte Belgian Surrealist painter
known for his witty and thought-provoking images
earliest paintings date from 1915 were Impressionistic in style
studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels from 1916 to 1918

3. Magritte was born and died in Belgium

4. Surrealism
Surrealism began as a philosophical movement that said the way to find truth in the world was through the subconscious mind and dreams, rather than through logical thought.
The movement began in the mid-1920s in France and was born out of an earlier movement called Dadaism from Switzerland. It reached its peak in the 1930s.

5. The Son of Man 1964

6. The Treachery of Images 1928–29 "Ceci n'est pas une pipe
The Treachery of Images 1928–29 "Ceci n'est pas une pipe.", French for "This is not a pipe."

7. The Empire of Lights

8. Time Transfixed 1938

9. The False Mirror