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1De Chirico, Piazza dItalie Malincornia,1948 Oil
on Canvas, Private Collection
De Chirico, Piazza dItalie, 1913 Oil on Canvas,
Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada
2Surrealism
Salvador Dali, Gala and The Angelus by Millet,
Oil on Canvas, 1935, MOMA, New York
3Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, 1931,
Oil on Canvas, MOMA, NY
Class question How do we see time slipping away?
4Salvador Dali, The Great Masturbator, 1929, Oil
on Canvas, Private Collection
5Francois Millet, The Angelus, 1857-1859, Musee
dOrsay, Paris, Oil on Canvas
6RENE MAGRITTE
- November 21, 1898 René François-Ghislain Magritte
is born in Lessines, Hainaut (Belgium). - In 1912 Magrittes mother kills herself in the
Sambre river, to be discovered with her nightgown
covering her face. - In 1916, Rene Magritte leaves high school and
enrolls at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels.
He had classes of Drawing, Decorative painting,
and, Ornamental composition. Here you see the
first of his work when he uses the Sambre river,
which is the river where his mother killed
herself. - Rene Magritte Dies on August 15, 1967 in
Brussels. He was 68 years old.
7René Magritte, La Trahison des Images, 1928, Oil
on Canvas, Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
8Rene Magritte, The Kiss, 1928, Oil on Canvas,
MOMA, New York
9Magritte, The Lovers,
10René Magritte, Attempting the Impossible, Oil on
Canvas, 1928 Galerie Isy Brachot,
Brussels, Belgium
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12René Magritte, Reproduction Prohibited Oil on
Canvas, 1937 Private Collection
13Rene Magritte, Le Fils de lHomme, 1964, Oil on
Canvas, Private Collection
14Max Ernst, Pieta or Revolution by Night, 1923,
Tate Gallery, London, UK, Oil on Canvas
15Max Ernst, The Attirement of the Bride, 1940 Oil
on Canvas, Guggenheim Collection, Venice