Magritte

I first came across surrealist painter Rene Magritte at an impressionable age via a Sunday Times magazine that had improbably found its way into our working class home during my elder sister’s (short) intellectual sixth former phase, and from which I cut out and mounted some choice images – most memorably the man with his nose in his pipe – that then decorated the walls of first my bedroom and then various student digs, becoming more dog-eared and blu-tac stained over the years until I could eventually replace it with a proper book of his work; it all came back to me today as I watched the ‘Perspectives’ documentary appreciation of the artist’s work, presented by Will Young on whom Magritte clearly had a similar impact at a similar age.