This is not an article: why René Magritte is a timeless genius

Blending surrealist imagery with mainstream painting, Magritte’s apples and pipes appear on fridge magnets worldwide. But there’s something eerie and existentially troubling at the heart of it all

We will never stop marvelling at the art of René Magritte. This Belgian surrealist who died in 1967 is forever contemporary; his paintings have never gone stale and never will. They are insidious conundrums that can never be solved, and the 21st century just can’t resist puzzling over them.

A Magritte retrospective called The Treason of Images is about to open at the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris, following major showings of his art this decade in New York and Chicago, not to mention Tate Liverpool. Why do museums keep putting on big Magritte shows and why do the crowds keep coming?

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