Behind every surreal image, there’s a human story. René Magritte lost his mother at 14 — a tragedy he never spoke of publicly. But it echoes through the veiled figures, the shifting doors, the skies split in two. His paintings are surreal because they make us search for meaning. A bowler hat or a pipe are not simple objects anymore, but have impacted our collective imaginary Today, on his birthday, we remember the artist who turned pain into poetry… and taught us to see the invisible inside the

René Descartes