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Surrealism

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The horrors of the second world war made him question the point of Surrealism. Luckily for us, he stuck with it

René Magritte (1898-1967) Magritte was a key figure in the Belgian Surrealist movement, as well as a participant in the Paris group's activities during the late 1920s. His paintings often place ordinary objects in unusual and unexpected contexts, thus forcing the viewer to observe reality in a new way. Unlike many of the Paris Surrealist artists, Magritte made no attempts at automatism, instead exploring images that were consciously arrived upon, presented in a realAbstract expressionism…