De Chirico, Piazza d’Italie: Malincornia,1948Oil on Canvas, Private Collection

De Chirico, Piazza d’Italie, 1913Oil on Canvas, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada

Salvador Dali, Gala and The Angelus by Millet, Oil on Canvas, 1935, MOMA, New York 

Surrealism

Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, 1931, Oil on Canvas, MOMA, NY

Class question: How do we see time slipping away?

Salvador Dali, The Great Masturbator, 1929, Oil on Canvas, Private Collection

Francois Millet, The Angelus, 1857-1859, Musee d’Orsay, Paris, Oil on Canvas

RENE MAGRITTENovember 21, 1898 René François-Ghislain

Magritte is born in Lessines, Hainaut (Belgium).

In 1912 Magritte’s mother kills herself in the Sambre river, to be discovered with her nightgown covering her face.

In 1916, Rene Magritte leaves high school and enrolls at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. He had classes of Drawing, Decorative painting, and, Ornamental composition. Here you see the first of his work when he uses the Sambre river, which is the river where his mother killed herself.

Rene Magritte Dies on August 15, 1967 in Brussels. He was 68 years old.

René Magritte, La Trahison des Images, 1928, Oil on Canvas, Los Angeles County Museum of Art,

Rene Magritte, The Kiss, 1928, Oil on Canvas, MOMA, New York

Magritte, The Lovers,

René Magritte, Attempting the Impossible,

Oil on Canvas, 1928Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels,

Belgium

René Magritte,Reproduction ProhibitedOil on Canvas, 1937Private Collection

Rene Magritte, Le Fils de l’Homme, 1964, Oil on Canvas, Private Collection

Max Ernst, Pieta or Revolution by Night,1923, Tate Gallery, London, UK,

Oil on Canvas

Max Ernst, The Attirement of the Bride, 1940 Oil on Canvas, Guggenheim Collection, Venice