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Rene Magritte Prints & Posters: Find Surrealist Rene Magritte Prints & Posters online at The Fine Art Company, with free shipping on many orders. Our great range of Rene Magritte Prints includes bestselling Surrealist Art Prints 'Golconde', 'Son of Man' and his famous 'La Trahison des Images' poster. Artist René François Ghislain Magritte born in Belgium in 1898 is along with Salvador Dali one of the best known Surrealist artists of the twentieth century. He became well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking paintings of landscapes, interiors and people. With his paintings, Magritte attempted to challenge observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality and force viewers to become hypersensitive to their surroundings. He began painting in 1915 in an Impressionist style, later becoming influenced by Futurism and Cubism. Rene Magritte's work frequently displays a juxtaposition of ordinary objects in an unusual context, giving new meanings to familiar things. The representational use of objects as other than what they seem is typified in his painting 'The Treachery of Images' (La trahison des Images), which shows a pipe that looks as though it is a model for a tobacco store advertisement. Magritte painted below the pipe "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" ("This is not a pipe"), which seems a contradiction, but is actually true: the painting is not a pipe, it is an image of a pipe. It does not "satisfy emotionally" when Magritte once was asked about this image, he replied that of course it was not a pipe, just try to fill it with tobacco. More Rene Magritte Prints & posters coming soon.

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