MagritteFrom men in bowler hats, floating in the sky, to a painting of a pipe above the caption "this is not a pipe", Ren Magritte (18981967) created an echo chamber of object and image, name and thing, reality and representation. Like other Surrealist works, Magrittes paintings combine a precise, mimetic technique with abnormal, alienating configurations which defy the laws of scale, logic, and science: a comb the size of a wardrobe, rocks that float in the