Magritte's work frequently displays a collection of ordinary objects in an unusual context, giving new meanings to familiar things.

Magritte's work became more realistic in its depiction of actual objects, while maintaining the element of juxtaposition, such as in 1951's Personal Values ( Les Valeurs Personnelles ) and 1954's Empire of Light ( L ’ Empire des lumières ).

These directly refer to Rene Magritte's The Treachery of Images ; the images similarly were used to stand in for the objects described.

Little is known about Magritte's early life.

James is featured in two of Magritte's works, Le Principe du Plaisir ( The Pleasure Principle ) and La Reproduction Interdite, a painting also known as Not to be Reproduced.

Magritte's style of surrealism is more representational than the " automatic " style of artists such as Joan Miró.

Psychoanalysts who have examined bereaved children have said that Magritte's back and forth play with reality and illusion reflects his " constant shifting back and forth from what he wishes —' mother is alive '— to what he knows —' mother is dead ' ".

René Magritte's " This is not a pipe.

And — as in Magritte's case ( where there is no obvious recourse to either automatic techniques or collage )— the very notion of convulsive joining became a tool for revelation in and of itself.

1931 was a year when several Surrealist painters produced works which marked turning points in their stylistic evolution: Magritte's Voice of Space ( La Voix des airs ) is an example of this process, where three large spheres representing bells hang above a landscape.

René Magritte's art, particularly The Son of Man, is obvious in its influence on the set design, and in part the costume design, of the film.

" The painting is not a pipe, but rather an image of a pipe, which was Magritte's point:

Popular interest in Magritte's work rose considerably in the 1960s, and his imagery has influenced pop, minimalist and conceptual art.

Supposedly, when his mother was found, her dress was covering her face, an image that has been suggested as the source of several of Magritte's paintings in 1927 – 1928 of people with cloth obscuring their faces, including Les Amants.

Magritte's earliest paintings, which date from about 1915, were Impressionistic in style.

Galerie la Centaure closed at the end of 1929, ending Magritte's contract income.

During 1947 – 48, Magritte's " Vache Period ", he painted in a provocative and crude Fauve style.

Among Magritte's works are a number of surrealist versions of other famous paintings.

Magritte's constant play with reality and illusion has been attributed to the early death of his mother.

Contemporary artists have been greatly influenced by René Magritte's stimulating examination of the fickleness of images.

Some artists who have been influenced by Magritte's works include John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Jan Verdoodt, Martin Kippenberger, Duane Michals and Storm Thorgerson.

The liar paradox and Russell's paradox also involve strange loops as does René Magritte's painting The Treachery of Images.

Sunday strips are colored, and their title panels are sometimes a tribute to a famous comic strip, a work of art or another subject, including Flash # 1, Dalí's The Persistence of Memory, Elvis Presley, Trout Mask Replica and Magritte's Golconda.

Surrealist René Magritte's experiments with signification are used as examples by Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault.

This memorable and much-played video featured colour clips of the band members, in blue shirts with tucked-in white ties, interspersed with surreal black-and-white images of bowler-hatted men inspired by Magritte's paintings.

In the 1970s, influenced by the work of Rene Magritte's eight methods, he began to search for ways of displaying oppositions and contradictions as the motivation for a painting.

It was shot in four days over a ten day period in March 2011 and its title was inspired by René Magritte's painting The Treachery of Images.

In Gary Braunbeck's novel Keepers, the antagonist figures ( the " Keepers " of the title ) resemble the nattily-dressed, bowler-hatted figures of Magritte's painting.

But if the Trial did not expose the special Nazi mania so deadly to Jews as well as to anyone upon whom it happened to light, neither did it warn very effectively against the ordinary anti-Semitism of which the Nazis made such effective use in Germany and wherever else they could find it.

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In ordinary use, as when speaking of Woodrow Wilson's political idealism, it generally suggests the priority of ideals, principles, values, and goals over concrete realities.

Since this use of the term conflicts with that of ordinary language, some psychologists have preferred to describe this process as " imaging " or " imagery " or to speak of it as " reproductive " as opposed to " productive " or " constructive " imagination.

The general solution comes from the study of ordinary differential equations and can be solved by the use of a Green's function.

The Persian physician Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (" Rhazes ", 845 – 930 CE ) maintained a laboratory and school in Baghdad, and was a student and critic of Galen, made use of opium in anesthesia and recommended its use for the treatment of melancholy in Fi ma-la-yahdara al-tabib " In the Absence of a Physician ", a home medical manual directed toward ordinary citizens for self-treatment if a doctor was not available.

" Russell uses the word class in a sense that might or might not correspond neatly to any identifiable ordinary English use of the word ; so we might say that he is not using ordinary language, but jargon.

Even those who do not hold with the tenets of ordinary language philosophy sometimes regard it a damning criticism of a philosophical view if it involves the use of some term that deviates too widely from ordinary English ( ordinary language ).