MAGRITTE, René

Magritte aligned himself with the Parisian Surrealists in the late 1920s, and subsequently became, along with Salvador Dali , one of the two Surrealist painters beloved by the general public. Again, like Dali, Magritte used strictly realistic imagery (which probably accounts for the shared popularity); but unlike Dali, he did not paint particularly well, and he never distorted his images with a nightmare logic. Magritte presented normal objects and figures in absurd situations: enormous...