Surrealism
Rene Magritte (1898-1967)
- nationality: Belgian
- style: illusionistic; deliberate literalism
- subject: “preconsciousness”
- the state before and during waking up
- did not draw on hallucinations, dreams, occult phenomena, etc.
- method: disjunction between context, size, or juxtaposition of objects
- effect: simplicity is suspect