Art History on Rene Magritte

  
   Rene's most famous work was a piece called The Treachery of Images, which is a picture of a pipe but, Rene didn't consider it a pipe because he called it "A Merely Image". The famous painting was made in 1929.
   Rene Magritte's medium was oil paint and a canvas as a support and a technique called the trompe l'oeil effect, which is basically visual illusion to trick the eye and make people think that the painting is 3-D. 
   Mr. Magritte had worked in the Belgian Infantry for a year (1920-1921). Then he worked at a wallpaper factory and was a poster designer in 1926. Then moved to Paris from Belgian Europe and helped with the end of a book that another person wrote and I am not sure who wrote the book and what the book is called. But during those times and work he still painted at home and at the end of 1948 was when he started using his old technique in his paintings again. 
   His most productive period was in late 1949 to early 1960. Those were the years he was able to paint most and be more active because in 1963 is when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, where he then died in 1967 from the cancer. But, he did end up completing up to about 27 paintings from the time of 1926 to 1967.
   The most bizarre, yet sad fact about Rene was that when he was thirteen his mother drowned herself in the River Sambre after years of struggling with depression and several attempted suicides. Her body was found with her dress covering her face. This may have influenced several paintings where Magritte portrayed people with cloth or objects covering their faces.
   The painting that I thought inspired me in an odd way was a painting by Rene called L'entree en scene. It was painted in 1961 using color lithograph which is  a method of printing originally based on the mix of oil and water. The printing is from a stone or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796.  But here are two other famous paintings by Magritte.

L'entree en scene
The Treachery of Images
The Son of Man

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