René Magritte (1898-1967) – a painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, photographer, and filmmaker.

He was one of the major figures of Surrealism and perhaps the greatest Belgian artist of the 20th century.
The illustrative quality of Magritte's pictures often results in a powerful paradox: images that are beautiful in their clarity and simplicity but also provoke unsettling thoughts. Magritte was fascinated by the interactions of textual and visual signs, and some of his most famous pictures employ both words and images.