Mountain Goat

The ultimate unconventional thinker who made his own surreal path.

René Magritte was the quintessential eccentric contrarian, deliberately subverting expectations and conventional logic in his art — painting pipes labeled 'this is not a pipe' and men in bowler hats with apples for faces. He lived an outwardly ordinary, even bourgeois life in suburban Brussels while producing work of radical, baffling originality, embodying the mountain-goat's trait of thriving in strange terrain where others cannot follow. His stubborn independence from mainstream art movements and his insistence on doing things entirely his own peculiar way define the mountain-goat perfectly.