Rene Magritte was a Belgian painter who is probably best known for his paintings of men in bowler hats floating around or standing with apples in front of their faces. But he also painted a lot of other really neat, and sometimes creepy, images.
Check out a bunch of his paintings here - what do you think?
Something to consider - the reason Magritte's paintings work well, is because he did a great job showing very unreal subjects in a realistic way. It was as if reality had just gone crazy. So, even though Magritte's work is surreal, it is also very real. You have to be really good at drawing and painting, at showing how the light is and how fabric and wood and people and other 'real' things look - to do that.
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