René Magritte was born on November 21 1898 in Lessines , Belgium. He was the oldest of three boys. When he was young his mother committed suicide by drowning herself in a river. Rene was able to find his happiness through movies and reading but most importantly though painting. In 1916 he left home for Brussels, where for the next two years he studied art at Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts. At his school where he was exposed to many different style of art. After that he was drafted into the war and did that for a year before he went back home. The type of style of painting that Rene painted would be surrealism. He is known for painting men in bowler hats perhaps autobiographical,but perhaps merely a prop for his visual game When he got home one of the first thing that he did do would be he got married. One of the first jobs when he just got back home would be a freelance poster and advertisement designer. One of the way that he was influenced to paint the surrealism style would be a painting by Giorgio de Chirico called the song of love. René created themes of mysteries and madness in his painting to challenge the assumption of human perception. Margitte had …show more content…
Repetition was an important part of Magritte painting style that he used to use in his paintings.Magritte also used words in his painting to have a meaning and not just be words on the canvas. A fun fact about René first showing of artwork would be that it was a failure but he did keep on making art and today he is famous for