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Magritte

Magritte

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Belgian painter who paints strange, dreamlike pictures that make people question reality
  • proper noun
  • /məˈɡrit/
: Magritte
  • Like Magritte, Poitras is challenging the viewer to react to the art.
  • Magritte the surrealist
  • René Magritte

Examples

  • In 1929, with The Treason of Images, Ren Magritte combined image and text to question the reliability of vision as well as the authority of words.

    Academic text (2008)

  • It's like the Magritte painting of the woman winding through the tree on the horse.

  • When I first saw the ad, I thought of Magritte's "This is not a pipe" painting.

    Blog text (17)

  • Deleuze puts it nicely: "It is between the visible and its conditions that statements glide, as with Magritte's two pipes."

    Academic text (2004)

  • René Magritte is famous for his surrealistic art that challenges the viewer's perception of reality.

  • I visited the exhibition dedicated to Magritte at the Modern Art Museum last weekend.

  • The iconic work of Belgian painter Magritte often includes paradoxical imagery.

Synonyms

Rene Magritte
vsMagritte
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Belgian painter famous for strange pictures that make people question what is real

is the same in meaning but written with an accented first name

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Magritte is the last name of the Belgian artist René Magritte, famous for strange, dream-like images. Saying 'a Magritte' is a way to use the artist's name like 'a Picasso' to mean a work in his style, so the name now stands for his paintings and ideas.