Rene Magritte - Pipe Painter

      After having a research through the internet , I finally found out who is the painter of the pipe painting that my friend has show to the class. The one who painted it name Rene Magritte. He is the artist that well known at provoking images with using a simple graphics and an everyday imagery. His painting is  some kind of mysterious.

    The painter , wanted to attempt the viewer to question their reality. Underneath is the sentence that written in french. It means that "This is not a pipe". Well , actually its written like that , because its is not a pipe , it is a painting of a pipe.

Artist : Rene Magritte

Completion date : 1948

Style : Surrealism 

Genre : Symbolic painting