Major Belgian representatives of this popular art movement are Edgar P. Jacobs, Jijé, Willy Vandersteen and André Franquin.

Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts.

* In the Mu. Zee ( a new museum after the fusion of the Provinciaal Museum voor de Moderne Kunst-Aan-Zee and the " Museum voor Schone Kunsten "), the museum of modern art from the 1830s to the present, you can view works of noted local painters such as James Ensor, Leon Spilliaert, Constant Permeke and the revolutionary post-war Belgian COBRA movement amongst others.

In his catalogue raisonné of Van der Weyden's, the Belgian art historian Dirk de Vos agrees with Campbell about the authenticity of these three paintings.

The recurrent motifs of androgyny, death, masks, dreams, vampires, satyrs and religious themes, so typical of the art of the French and Belgian Symbolists, find full expression in Spare's early work, along with a desire to shock the bourgeois.

He also worked with Pierrette Broodthaers to open the " Broodthaers & Bertrand " art gallery, and worked with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Valenciennes and Belgian artist Jacques Charlier to produce 120 Andy Warhol-style portraits.

Tuymans also curates exhibitions, and is organizing the second in a series of cross-cultural exhibitions that brings together Belgian and Chinese art.

The museum's many highlights include its collection of " Flemish Primitive " art, works by a wide range of Renaissance and Baroque masters, as well as a selection of paintings from the 18th and 19th century neo-classical and realist periods, milestones of Belgian symbolism and modernism, masterpieces of Flemish expressionism and many items from the city's collection of post-war modern art.

Danny Devos also known as DDV ( born in Vilvoorde, 1959 ) is a Belgian artist whose work involves body art and performance art and a fascination with true crime.

Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven ( born 5 December 1951 ) is a Belgian artist whose work involves painting, drawing, computer art and video art.

Marcel Broodthaers ( 28 January 1924 – 28 January 1976 ) was a Belgian poet, filmmaker and artist with a highly literate and often witty approach to creating art works.

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His most successful pieces were his fine vocal art songs for solo voice and piano which often used elements of German and Belgian folk music.

In 2006, an important long-term loan from the Belgian architect Charles Vandenhove and his wife greatly strengthened the museum's collection of postwar art.

* A Jan Cox painting on a Belgian art stamp

Théo ( Théophile ) van Rysselberghe ( 23 November 1862 — 14 December 1926 ) was a Belgian neo-impressionist painter, who played a pivotal role in the European art scene at the turn of the century.

In 2006, Belgian Conceptual Artist Wim Delvoye introduced the world to his " Cloaca Machine ", a mechanical art work that actually digests food and turns it into excrement, finally fulfilling Vaucanson's wish for a working digestive automation.

These small but very select shows will consist not only of American pictures never before publicly shown in any city in this country, but also Austrian, German, British, French and Belgian photographs as well as such other art productions, other than photographic, as the Council of the Photo-Secession can from time to time secure.

In 1905, he was the only living artist allowed to exhibit in a retrospective show of Belgian art in Brussels.

The work was owned by the aristocratic Belgian Arenberg and Mérode families before reaching the art market.

Among their Florentine circle could be counted the sculptor Adolf von Hildebrand, the writer Isolde Kurz, the English architect and antiquary Herbert Horne, the Dutch Germanist André Jolles and the Belgian art historian Jacques Mesnil.

* 1919 – Paul de Man, Belgian literary critic ( d. 1983 )

The memoir became cause for controversy, because shortly before Derrida published his piece, it had been discovered by the Belgian literary critic Ortwin de Graef that long before his academic career in the US, de Man had written almost two hundred essays in a pro-Nazi newspaper during the German occupation of Belgium, including several that were explicitly antisemitic.

Nevertheless, Anouilh refused to comment on his political views, writing in a letter to the Belgian critic Hubert Gignoux in 1946, " I do not have a biography and I am very happy about it.

The Belgian critic Octave Maus invited him to present eleven pieces at the Vingt ( the Twenties ) exhibition in Brussels in February.

To further connect the two concepts, there are descriptive commonalities between the two that Belgian critic Theo D ' haen addresses in his essay, " Magical Realism and Postmodernism.

François-Joseph Fétis ( 25 March 1784 – 26 March 1871 ) was a Belgian musicologist, composer, critic and teacher.

During this time, Miller was heavily influenced by fellow Johns Hopkins professor and Belgian literary critic Georges Poulet and the Geneva School of literary criticism, which Miller characterized as " the consciousness of the consciousness of another, the transposition of the mental universe of an author into the interior space of the critic's mind.

Tomislav Dretar ( born March 2, 1945 ) is a Croatian, Bosnian, French and Belgian poet, writer, critic, and translator, as well as an academic, journalist, editor, political leader and president of Bihać's HVO.

The character of Tintin was partly inspired by Georges's brother Paul Remi, an officer in the Belgian army.

* 1917 – Paul Frère, Belgian race car driver and journalist ( d. 2008 )

The word " panarchy " was invented and the concept proposed by a Belgian political economist, Paul Émile de Puydt in an article called " Panarchy " published in 1860.

The Universal Decimal Classification ( UDC ) is a bibliographic and library classification developed by the Belgian bibliographers Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine at the end of the 19th century.

* November 24 – Belgian paratroopers and mercenaries capture Stanleyville, but a number of hostages die in the fighting, among them Evangelical Covenant Church missionary Dr. Paul Carlson.

* June 15 – Paul Michiels, Belgian singer-songwriter

; Belgian surrealism: The surrealism movement has major representatives in Belgium: Paul Delvaux, René Magritte.

Upon his initiative, a Belgian College in Rome was opened in 1844, where 100 years later, in 1946, Pope John Paul II would begin his Roman studies.

In his book about Rosa Luxemburg, Paul Frölich quotes several experiences of general strikes, including the Belgian general strike for the universal suffrage in 1893.

Retinger approached Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands who agreed to promote the idea, together with former Belgian Prime Minister Paul Van Zeeland, and the head of Unilever at that time, Dutchman Paul Rijkens.

Other musical influences he later acknowledged included gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, Belgian jazz musician Django Reinhardt, American concert singer Paul Robeson, and Black comedian Bert Williams.

Most famous Belgian authors are: Guido Gezelle ( 1830 – 1899 ), Emile Verhaeren ( 1855 – 1916 ), Max Elskamp ( 1862 – 1931 ), Maurice Maeterlinck ( 1862 – 1949 ), Paul van Ostaijen ( 1896 – 1926 ), Henri Michaux ( French born and educated in Belgium, 1899 – 1984 ) and Jacques Brel ( 1929 – 1978 ) and prose writers: Hendrik Conscience ( 1812 – 1883 ), Charles de Coster ( 1827 – 1879 ), Willem Elsschot ( 1882 – 1960 ), Michel de Ghelderode ( 1898 – 1962 ), Georges Simenon 1903-1989, Louis Paul Boon ( 1912 – 1979 ), Hugo Claus ( 1929 – 2008 ), Pierre Mertens ( born in 1939 ) Ernest Claes ( 1885 – 1968 ), and, Amélie Nothomb ( born in 1967 ).

A 2000 cover version of " Johnny " by Belgian musical group Vaya Con Dios that credited Paul prompted another action by the Romanian Musical Performing and Mechanical Rights Society.

Paul Henri Charles Spaak ( 25 January 1899 – 31 July 1972 ) was a Belgian Socialist politician and statesman, who served as Prime Minister of Belgium ( 1938 – 1939, 1946 and 1947 – 1949 ), as the first President of the United Nations General Assembly ( 1946 – 1957 ), as the first President of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community ( 1952 – 1954 ), and as the second Secretary General of NATO ( 1957 – 1961 ).

His mother, Marie Janson was a socialist, and the first woman to enter the Belgian Senate, and his father, Paul Spaak was a poet and playwright.

Paul Guillaume van Zeeland ( 11 November 1893 – 22 September 1973 ) was a Belgian lawyer, economist, Catholic politician and statesman born in Soignies.

St. Amands, his native city, has dedicated a museum to this giant of Belgian literature, showing many original manuscripts of his works and letters along with works of his artistic friends Théo van Rysselberghe, Leon Spilliaert, Constantin Meunier, Paul Signac and Ossip Zadkine.

A member of the Belgian team went on to take the individual title as well, with Paul Anspach taking the gold medal.

Panarchy is a conceptual term first coined by the Belgian philosopher, economist, and botanist Paul Emile de Puydt in 1860, referring to a specific form of governance (- archy ) that would encompass ( pan -) all others.

Guimard first meets Belgian Art Nouveau architect Paul Hankar.

He published the writings of such Belgian Surrealists as Paul Nougé, Louis Scutenaire and André Souris, as well as Magritte himself, in a series that eventually extended to hundreds of titles.

In 1953, Mariën went to the Belgian coast, where he distributed false bank notes printed by René and Paul Magritte.