When his mother committed suicide she pulled up from the river with her robe covering her face. As a result he always hid the faces in his paintings.
Rene Magritte was known mostly for painting weird abstract paintings, like a guy with a bowler hat and a pineapple for a face, u know, weeeiiiirrrddd stuff. Answer 2: His paintings were surrealistic, not abstract. Abstract means no recognisable subject at all.
he used your face
Rene Magritte's painted people who's faces were covered...with some type of clothing because his mother suffered of depression and she comited suicide when he was 14 years old.She drowned herself in a river and days later she was fished out.Rene was present when they were pulling her out but he didn't see her face because it was covered by her night gown.He was traumatized by this even and it influenced many of his paintings.
The Son of Man, 1964 is an oil on canvas artwork by Rene Magritte (1898-1967). This picture includes a man in a bowler hat with an apple in front of his face. And if one looks closely, you may notice that his left elbow is backwards. This is one of two artworks of Magritte's where a man with a bowler hat has his face covered by an item (other image is The Man in the Bowler Hat).
It is called The Son Of Man, painted in 1964. Now in a private collection.
Rene Magritte was known mostly for painting weird abstract paintings, like a guy with a bowler hat and a pineapple for a face, u know, weeeiiiirrrddd stuff. Answer 2: His paintings were surrealistic, not abstract. Abstract means no recognisable subject at all.
he used your face
Rene Magritte's painted people who's faces were covered...with some type of clothing because his mother suffered of depression and she comited suicide when he was 14 years old.She drowned herself in a river and days later she was fished out.Rene was present when they were pulling her out but he didn't see her face because it was covered by her night gown.He was traumatized by this even and it influenced many of his paintings.
he didn't show his face because of the tragedy based on his mother, she drowned herself covering her head.
The Son of Man, 1964 is an oil on canvas artwork by Rene Magritte (1898-1967). This picture includes a man in a bowler hat with an apple in front of his face. And if one looks closely, you may notice that his left elbow is backwards. This is one of two artworks of Magritte's where a man with a bowler hat has his face covered by an item (other image is The Man in the Bowler Hat).
A veil is a cover for the face as is a masque.
It is called The Son Of Man, painted in 1964. Now in a private collection.
Cover Her Face was created in 1962-12.
It has been suggested that the covered faces are reminiscent of his mother who drowned, and whose face was covered by her clothes.
The painting by René Magritte is called 'The Son of Man'.
they made face paintings
to scare away other tribes