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René François Ghislain Magritte (Lessines, 21 November 1898 – Brussels, 15 August 1967) was a Belgian painter. Together with Paul Delvaux he is considered the greatest surrealist painter in Belgium. Read the full biography

René François Ghislain Magritte (Lessines, 21 November 1898 – Brussels, 15 August 1967) was a Belgian painter. Together with Paul Delvaux he is considered the greatest surrealist painter in Belgium. After initial closeness to Cubism and Futurism, his style focused on a very accurate representational technique based on trompe l'oeil, on a par with Salvador Dalí and Delvaux, but without resorting to the paranoid type symbolism of the first or erotic-antique of the second. But René Magritte, also known as le saboteur tranquille for his ability to insinuate doubts about reality through the representation of reality itself, does not approach reality to interpret it, nor to portray it, but to show its indefinable mystery. The intention of his work is to allude to everything as a mystery and not to define it.