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Magritte’s Masterpieces
Magritte’s 1. were characterised by particular 2. : the female torso, the bourgeois “little man”, the bowler hat, the apple, the castle, the rock, the window, and other 3. objects, which were often set in unusual or unsettling situations. In Paris he met and befriended several of the Paris 4. , including poets André Breton and Paul Éluard, and he became 5. with the collages of Max Ernst. Magritte began to integrate text into some of his works, and 6. this time he 7. one of his most famous pieces, The Treachery of Images (1929), in which a detailed 8. of a pipe is combined with the statement: Ceci n’est pas une pipe (“This is not a pipe”). The 9. questioned the authority of 10. images and words.
Adapted from: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rene Magritte

9. Guernica: What inspired Pablo Picasso’s masterpiece? BBC News posted by BBC News. Watch the video about Guernica, and correct the mistakes contained in the summary below.


Pablo Picasso’s masterpiece was inspired by his lover, Dora Maar, who died during the bombing attack of German and Italian Allies on Gernika. The attack occurred in 1939. This bombing was considered the first rehearsal of a total war strategy. One of the most powerful images in the painting is the one representing a woman playing with a child. The main characters are women who run from the war, who suffer and devastate the scene at the same time. The sufferance of animals is represented as well because Picasso loved animals. The soldier represents the poor people. Other animals that appear are a horse and a cow. The painting represents victory: people’s drama and their suffering and pain are seen as torture; nothing shows respect for the pain in Guernica. According to critics, “A work of art must make a man react… It must agitate him and shake him up.” aperta