MoMA | Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–1938OBJECT?" data-place="The Menil Collection Houston"> Between 1926 and 1938 René Magritte (Belgian, 1898–1967) developed key strategies and techniques to defamiliarize the familiar—to make, in his words, “everyday objects shriek aloud.” During this period of intense innovation he was closely aligned with the Surrealist movement, and his work of these years constituted an important new approach to Su
