Magritte is above all singular character, a solitary man. He briefly signed on to the parisian surrealist scene and quickly left it.
Magritte must be approached and explored within his own poetic context. He created a world, and now a planet Magritte orbits in our collective imagination.
For sixty years and more, his little spherical bells, floating rocks, terrifying temptresses and pipes declaring that they aren't peep, keep illustrating and reviving all forms of our cultural and social life, from advertising to music videos and the hippest cover illustration. No other painter of this century has been so widely reproduced, borrowed and imitated as Magritte.