René François Ghislain Magritte is a Belgian Surrealist painter. His paintings often play on the discrepancy between an object and its representation. For example, one of his most famous paintings is an image of a pipe under which appears the text "Ceci n’est pas une pipe" (This is not a pipe). It is in fact about considering the object as a concrete reality and not according to a term that is both abstract and arbitrary. Magritte's painting questions its own nature, and the painter's action on the image. Painting is never a representation of a real object, but the action of the painter's thought on that object. Another painting, "The Forbidden Reproduction" shows a man from behind looking at a mirror, which does not reflect the man's face but his back. In the same way, painting is not a mirror of reality. His mode of representation, which appears voluntarily neutral, academic, even scholastic, highlights a powerful work of deconstruction of the relationships that things maintain in reality. Magritte excels in the representation of mental images. For Magritte, visible reality must be approached objectively. He has a decorative talent that is manifested in the geometric arrangement of the representation. The essential element in Magritte is his innate disgust for plastic, lyrical, pictorial painting. Magritte wanted to eliminate everything conventional.