Author: Allmer, Patricia, Spozio, Iker Art & design styles: Surrealism & DadaPublished on 8 August 2016 by Laurence King Publishing in the United Kingdom as part of the This is... series.Hardback | 80 pages228 x 171 | 380g Belgian artist Rene Magrittes biography is a key element of his art. His life is infused with bizarre moments: a surreal journey oscillating between fact and fiction that he always conducted as the straight-faced bowler-hatted man. The events of Magrittes childhood played an important part in creating the surrealist, but it was his popular culture borrowings from crime fiction, advertising and postcards that has made his work instantly recognizable. The often unreliable nature of Magrittes accounts of his own life have transformed his public image into a kind of fictional character rather than a real person. He would shape his own life story to be its own surreal work of art.
