Rene Magritte: The Life of an Artist - Art History School

Please consider subscribing to this channel: And supporting this channel on Patreon, many thanks! Learn about the bizarre world of Rene Magritte, in this Rene Magritte biography. He was a Belgian Surrealist artist, and one of the most famous Surrealist painters. His paintings were characterized by particular symbols—the female torso, the bourgeois “little man,” the bowler hat, the apple, the castle, the rock, the window, and other ordinary objects, which were often set in unusual or unexpected situations. Like other painters of Surrealism his work is mysterious and deliberately difficult to decipher. He married Georgette Berger in 1922 and made friends with Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Hans Harp, Joan Miro and Salvador Dali of the Parisian Surrealist group. Rene Magritte’s most important works include The Menaced Assassin, The Red Model and The Enchanted Domain, a mural he created for the