René François Ghislain Magritte ( 21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967 ) was a Belgian surrealist artist.

Image of pipe and passport of René Magritte

The Treachery Of Images ( 1928-29 ) by René Magritte depicts a pipe along with text stating " This is not a pipe.

The group included the musician, poet, and artist E. L. T. Mesens, painter and writer René Magritte, Paul Nougé, Marcel Lecomte, and André Souris.

The surrealist painters Salvador Dalí and René Magritte completed several works, including The First Days of Spring and The Treachery of Images.

** René Magritte, Belgian painter ( b. 1898 )

* November 21 – René Magritte, Belgian artist ( d. 1967 )

Félicien Rops ( 1833 – 98 ) won acclaim as a graphic artist, as did surrealist painters Paul Delvaux ( 1897 – 1994 ) and René Magritte ( 1898 – 1967 ).

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

* Selected modern painters or sculptors: Pierre Alechinsky, Aloïse Corbaz, Braulio Arenas, Arman, Jean Arp, Enrico Baj, Ben, A Benquet, Alexandre Boileau, Bona Pieyre de Mandiargue, Micheline Bounoure, André Bourdil, Francis Bouvet, Victor Brauner, Elisa Breton, Jorge Caceres, Jacques Callot, Jorge Camacho, Paul Colinet, Pierre Courthion, Fleury-Joseph Crépin, Salvador Dalí, André Demonchy, Ferdinand Desnos, Deyema, Óscar Domínguez, Enrico Donati, Mirabelle Dors, Marcel Duchamp, Baudet Dulary, René Duvilliers, Yves Elléouët, Nusch Eluard, Paul Éluard, Colette Enard, Jimmy Ernst, Max Ernst, Henri Espinoza, Fahr el Nissa Zeid, Jean Fautrier, Luis Fernandez, Charles Filiger, Alexandre Evariste, Johann Henrich Füssli, Paul Gauguin, Alberto Gironella, Arshile Gorky, Max Walter Svanberg, Eugenio Granell, Henri de Groux, Jacques Hérold, René Iché, Wifredo Lam, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Diego Rivera, Yves Tanguy, Adolf Wölfli, etc.

It also holds works by a wide range of influential European and American artists including Georges Braque, Marcel Duchamp, Walker Evans, Helen Frankenthaler, Alberto Giacometti, Arshile Gorky, Hans Hofmann, Edward Hopper, Paul Klee, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Dorothea Lange, Fernand Léger, Roy Lichtenstein, Morris Louis, René Magritte, Aristide Maillol, Joan Miró, Henry Moore, Kenneth Noland, Georgia O ' Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Auguste Rodin, Mark Rothko, David Smith, Frank Stella, and hundreds of others.

* The Son of Man, René Magritte painting, 1964

* Olympia, an 1948 oil on canvas painting by René Magritte

In Belgium, symbolism became so popular that it came to be thought of as a national style: the static strangeness of painters like René Magritte can be considered as a direct continuation of symbolism.

Some of the most impressive museums in Belgium are The Royal Museum for Fine Arts, in Antwerp, which has an admirable collection of works by Peter Paul Rubens, the Groeningemuseum, in Bruges, with the Flemish Primitives, the MAS ( Museum Aan De Stoom ) wich is located on't eilandje is the biggest museum in Belgium, and the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels, which has a cinema, a concert hall, and artworks of many periods, including a large René Magritte collection.

Belgian Francophone literature is characterized by authors who achieved a nationwide success in Belgium while being little known in France, and shares traits that are perceived as typically Belgian: use of black humour, self-derision, surrealism and absurdism ( in a similar vein as Belgian painters such as René Magritte ), and references to Belgian history and society ( such as Belgian royalty, language conflicts, former colony of Congo, Belgian beers and gastronomy, and whatever is typically Belgian ) and they are often active in Belgian medias as columnists or entertainers.

SFMOMA made a number of important acquisitions under the direction of David A. Ross ( 1998 – 2001 ), including works by Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Rauschenberg, René Magritte, and Piet Mondrian, as well as Marcel Duchamp ’ s iconic Fountain ( 1917 / 1964 ).

* ' Smoke and mirrors: The surreal life and work of René Magritte ', The Independent, 10 June 2011

* The René Magritte museum was set up in the house where the famous painter lived and worked for twenty-four years.

* René Magritte, surrealist painter ( 1898 – 1967 )

The term has been used in André Malraux ’ s novel ( 1933 ) and René Magritte ’ s paintings 1933 & 1935, both titled La Condition Humaine, Hannah Arendt ’ s book ( 1958 ) and Masaki Kobayashi ’ s film series ( 1959-1961 ).

" The painter René Magritte and the surrealist poet and novelist Robert Desnos both produced works alluding to Fantômas.

The term became useful in order to describe differences perceived between two of its founders Francis Bacon, described as empiricist, and René Descartes, who is described as a rationalist.

In 1819 Edward D. Clarke and in 1822 René Juste Haüy described fluorescence in fluorites, Sir David Brewster described the phenomenon for chlorophyll in 1833 and Sir John Herschel did the same for quinine in 1845.

Crystal symmetry was first investigated experimentally by Nicolas Steno ( 1669 ), who showed that the angles between the faces are the same in every exemplar of a particular type of crystal, and by René Just Haüy ( 1784 ), who discovered that every face of a crystal can be described by simple stacking patterns of blocks of the same shape and size.

The grandfather paradox is a proposed paradox of time travel first described ( in this exact form ) by the science fiction writer René Barjavel in his 1943 book Le Voyageur Imprudent ( Future Times Three ).

Her father, popularly known as " Good King René " was Duke of Anjou and titular King of Naples, Sicily and Jerusalem ; he has been described as " a man of many crowns but no kingdoms ".

The consensus honoree for the first description is the Belgian missionary Louis Hennepin, who observed and described the falls in 1677, earlier than Kalm, after traveling with the explorer René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, thus bringing the falls to the attention of Europeans.

The California sea lion was described by René Primevère Lesson, a French naturalist, in 1828.

Both Francis Bacon and René Descartes described the human intellect or understanding as something which needed to be considered limited, and needing the help of a methodical and skeptical approach to learning about nature.

In an article in La France, 1915, the French critic, Remy de Gourmont described the Imagists as descendants of the French Symbolistes and in a 1928 letter to the French critic and translator René Taupin, Pound was keen to emphasise another ancestry for Imagism, pointing out that Hulme was indebted to a Symbolist tradition, linking back via William Butler Yeats, Arthur Symons and the Rhymers ' Club generation of British poets to Mallarmé.

* R. leucophrys melaleuca was described by French naturalists Jean René Constant Quoy and Joseph Paul Gaimard in 1830.

Later, René Rémond and Stanley G. Payne described the differences between Action Française and Italian fascism.

The Moreton Bay fig was described by French botanist René Louiche Desfontaines.

However, Gray later wrote that a similar dolphin was described as Delphinus supercilious by French surgeons and naturalists René Primevère Lesson and Prosper Garnot from a specimen collected off the coast of Tasmania two years before his own classification.

The Port Jackson fig was described by French botanist René Louiche Desfontaines.

The Flame Robin was first described by the French naturalists Jean René Constant Quoy and Joseph Paul Gaimard in 1830 as Muscicapa chrysoptera.

French naturalists Jean René Constant Quoy and Joseph Paul Gaimard originally described the blacktip reef shark during the 1817 – 1820 exploratory voyage of the corvette Uranie.

French naturalists Jean René Constant Quoy and Joseph Paul Gaimard originally described the cookiecutter shark during the 1817 – 1820 exploratory voyage of the corvette Uranie, giving it the name Scymnus brasiliensis because the type specimen was caught off Brazil.

Arran was found to be enjoying the company of an Edinburgh merchant's daughter, Alison Craig, described by Randolph as ' a good handsome wench ' in December 1561, and the interference of the Earl of Bothwell, Lord John Stewart, Prior of Coldingham, and René, Marquis of Elbeuf led to an armed stand-off.

The condition was first described by Robert Graham in 1814, but the condition with its triad of symptoms was ascribed to René Leriche.

Res extensa ( often translated " corporeal substance " by Descartes ) is one of the three substances described by René Descartes in his Cartesian ontology, alongside res cogitans and God.

He was an avid plant collector, sending over 200, 000 herbarium specimens back to France, from which numerous new genera and over 1, 500 new species were described, many by Adrien René Franchet of the Paris Muséum national d ' Histoire naturelle.

Many of these new species were first described by French zoologists, for example Jean René Constant Quoy and Joseph Paul Gaimard, Paul Rang, Alcide d ' Orbigny and Louis François Auguste Souleyet.