Editing René Magritte (section)

==Artists influenced by Magritte==
Contemporary artists have been greatly influenced by René Magritte's stimulating examination of the fickleness of images. Some artists who have been influenced by Magritte's works include [[John Baldessari]], [[Ed Ruscha]], [[Andy Warhol]], [[Jasper Johns]], [[Jan Verdoodt]], [[Martin Kippenberger]], [[Duane Michals]], [[Storm Thorgerson]], and [[Luis Rey]]. Some of the artists' works integrate direct references and others offer contemporary viewpoints on his abstract fixations.<ref>{{Cite journal | title= Los Angeles: Magritte by Baldessari, Road Trips and Rock 'n' Roll | author=Amra Brooks | publisher=ARTINFO | date= 27 December 2006 | url=http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/24140/los-angeles-magritte-by-baldessari-road-trips-and-rock-n-roll/| access-date=2008-04-24 }}</ref>

Magritte's use of simple graphic and everyday imagery has been compared to that of the [[pop-art]]ists. His influence in the development of pop art has been widely recognized,<ref name="Meuris202">Meuris 1991, p. 202.</ref> although Magritte himself discounted the connection. He considered the pop artists' representation of "the world as it is" as "their error", and contrasted their attention to the transitory with his concern for "the feeling for the real, insofar as it is permanent."<ref name="Meuris202" /> The 2006–2007 [[LACMA]] exhibition "Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images" examined the relationship between Magritte and contemporary art.<ref>{{Cite journal | title=Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images | author=Stephanie Brown | publisher=Los Angeles county Museum of Art and Ludion | year=2006 }}</ref>