Artist Research - Rene Magritte

I wasn't even thinking about this artist, but I stumbled across this painting by Rene Magritte which I recognised:

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Rene Magritte was a surrealist who took things to a new level. He is well-known for his witty images which he created because he wanted to challenge observers perceptions of reality and force people to be hypersensitive to their surroundings. Here are a few more images I found of his work:

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These paintings are pretty much perfect for what we need, simple, interesting and engaging. Whilst looking though his work, I found these, which are of a landscape, and he has shown a canvas in front of it, as if it matches up perfectly, creating some really cool images. These reminded me of our film, because its taking an environment and blending it with another. Pretty cool eh?

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I like surrealism and i think its the answer to finding the right painting for our film so I think that's where I will explore for more artists.