Paul Magritte

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:Artist
gptkbp:art_movement gptkb:Surrealism
gptkbp:birth_date 1898-11-21
gptkbp:birth_place gptkb:Lessines,_Belgium
gptkbp:death_date 1967-08-15
gptkbp:death_place gptkb:Brussels,_Belgium
gptkbp:education gptkb:Académie_Royale_des_Beaux-Arts
gptkbp:exhibited_at gptkb:Centre_Pompidou
gptkb:Royal_Museums_of_Fine_Arts_of_Belgium
gptkb:Museum_of_Modern_Art
gptkbp:famous_quote “ Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.”
“ Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.”
“ This is not a pipe.”
“ We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.”
“ The visible world is a world of appearances.”
gptkbp:famous_work gptkb:The_Lovers
gptkb:Golconda
gptkb:The_Son_of_Man
gptkb:The_Treachery_of_Images
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Paul Magritte
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Pop_art
Conceptual art
Contemporary art
gptkbp:influenced_by gptkb:Cubism
gptkb:Dadaism
gptkbp:known_for surrealism
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:Belgian
gptkbp:notable_for visual paradoxes
unexpected juxtapositions
playful imagery
gptkbp:notable_influence gptkb:René_Magritte
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:painter
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Georgette_Berger
gptkbp:style Magrittean
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:René_Magritte
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4