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Ghislain Magritte Research Paper

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The artist I chose to do research on was Rene François Ghislain Magritte. Magritte was born November 21, 1898, Lessines, Belgium to a wealthy family. He had three younger brothers, his father was in the manufacturing business, and his mother was thought to be a milliner before getting married. A man painting in a crematory and his mother’s suicide in 1912 influenced Magritte’s progress as an artist. Magritte painted to find comfort from his mother’s death. In 1916, he left home and studied art at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels for the next two years. Although he was not interested in his classes, he became friends with Victor Servranckx, who taught Magritte the three styles: Futurism, Cubism, and Purism. Then, in 1921, he joined the

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