René Magritte
René François Ghislain Magritte (21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist, who became well known for creating a number of witty and thought-provoking images. Ostensibly his most famous work, Magritte’s 1964 painting The Son of Man, which depicts the face of its bowler-hatted subject obscured by a hovering green apple, was actually created as a self-portrait. This conflict between the visible and that which it conceals played a vital role in Magritte's work throughout his career.
