ARTH-135 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Unconscious Mind, Pancreatic Cancer, Max Ernst

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Rene magritte is a belgian artist born in 1898. He was born to a wealthy family and was ushered into art at a young age. He studied at the academie des beaux-art in brussels. This was where he began to get influenced by picasso"s works. One of his earlier works, made in 1923, is his three nudes in an. This work clearly shows his cubist styles at the time. Not much can be said about it, it wasn"t one of his most important pieces of art. Shortly after marriage, magritte saw that he liked surrealism the best and soon made the. 1926 it capture a scene from fantomas, a film from 1912. It depicts two figures holding strange objects as the watch a murderer. Magritte had his own one man show in brussels. At this point, magritte was making a piece of art everyday. Unfortunately, critics did not enjoy the exhibition and he became depressed by the negativity.

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