Rene Magritte
Magritte was a Belgian Surrealist.
He was born in Belgium in 1898 and he died in 1967.
He started drawing lessons in 1910. His mother drowned herself in a river two years later, and she was supposedly found washed up with a dress over her face. This was thought to have inspired people in Magritte's art whose faces were obscured. His early paintings were impressionistic, and it 1967 he made his first surrealist paining. He also had ties to the communist party.