René Magritte (1898–1967) is one of the most revered and popular artists of the 20th century. During summer 2011 Tate Liverpool presents René Magritte: The Pleasure Principle, the first major exhibition of the Belgian surrealist in the UK in ten years.
Welcome to René Magritte at Tate Liverpool
In case you don’t know, Magritte was a Belgian Surrealist painter known for his mysterious imagery which combines the banal with the strange for disturbing effect. His work conjures improbable worlds – gigantic room-filling apples, a rain of ‘anonymous’ bowler-hatted men, paintings visualising paradoxical realities where night coincides with day.
René Magritte at Tate Liverpool - in pictures
Magritte said of his pipe: ‘I’ve been criticised enough for it! Yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it’s just a representation. So if I had written “This is a pipe” below the picture, I would have been lying’
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