What art movement was represented by Salvador Dalí and René Magritte?
After Magritte Tom Stoppard was beginning to become interested in bringing his plays to an American stage. "After Magritte" is an example of Surrealism in the arts, in which what is seen by the naked eye is not what the art necessarily expresses. The basis of the surrealism in this play is the predisposition of Rene Magritte as a surrealist painter; Stoppard sought to bring to life the characters inside of Magritte’s surrealist reality. The idea behind "After Magritte" is partly to represent the surrealist schools of thought that are shared between art forms, but also to animate Magritte's world of still
René Magritte remaining committed to the political left, he thus advocated a certain autonomy of art. On his religious views, Magritte was an agnostic. Popular interest in Magritte's work rose considerably in the 1960s, and his imagery has influenced pop, minimalist and conceptual art. In 2005 he came 9th in the Walloon version of "De Grootste Belg" ("The Greatest Belgian"); in the Flemish version he was 18th. Magritte married Georgette Berger in June 1922. Georgette was the daughter of a butcher in Charleroi, and had first met Magritte when she was only 13 and he was 15. They met again in Brussels