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Philosopher artist – Magritte

They have a permanent Magritte exhibition on in Brussels which i can really recommend seeing (although if you don’t understand french or flemish I would get the audio guide because you miss a lot not knowing what his quotes mean! ) . I love his ‘THIS IS NOT A PIPE’ painting and the titles that he gives his paintings are always either hilarious or thought-provoking (one of a headless man wearing a ruff falling over a wall is entitled panic in the middle ages, the one of the owl plants is called companions of fear). Yesterday I tried to copy a few of them for my postcard artathon…