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wandering through weirdly lit landscapes. They cast long shad-
ows, wandering bare-breasted among classical ruins. Some women
grow roots.
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Along with other Surrealist artists represented in this museum, such
as Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, and Roberto
Matta, you'll see plenty of paintings by Magritte in the new René
Magritte Museum.
René Magritte (1898-1967)
Magritte paints real objects with photographic clarity, then jum-
bles them together in new and provocative ways.
Magritte had his own private reserve of symbolic images.
You'll see clouds, blue sky, win-
dows, the female torso, men in
bowler hats, rocks, and castles
arranged side by side as if they
should mean something. People
morph into animals or inanimate
objects. The juxtaposition short-
circuits your brain only when you
try to make sense of it.
Magritte also trained and
worked in Brussels. Though he's world-famous now, it took decades
before his peculiar brand of Surrealism caught on.
