René Magritte (1898)
Before gaining the support of a Brussels art gallery and taking up painting full-time, Magritte earned a living designing wallpaper and advertisements. His early works were in the Cubist and Futurist styles, but he soon embraced Surrealism. Dislocations of space, time, and scale were common elements in his illogical paintings, and he used certain images—the sea, the female torso, the bourgeois “little man” in a bowler hat—repeatedly. Why did art thieves return a stolen Magritte painting in 2012? More…
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