René Magritte

Since photography was forbidden in the Magritte Museum, I just had to show some of his work anyway with downloading of Internet pictures. Just to show the pictures does not do them justice. Imagine these about 10 times as big and in solid black rooms lined with Magritte quotes.

Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist who died in the sixties. Surrealist means that he focused on reality but essentially twisted it in some way or another. He thought that paintings should be real, more down-to-earth, and more sensual, but he also felt that humans should be more in tune with their surroundings, more in reality. This may seem odd after viewing his work, but keep in mind that everything he paints is indeed real and part of reality. Surrealism, according to Magritte, is combining everything that is real, everything of the world, and putting it into a new perspective, making it mesh and seem seamless.

This says "This is not a pipe" in French.