Magritte's paintings

"Les tableaux de Magritte"
French A2 writing exercise

Mathieu loves the work of Belgian painter René Magritte.

Discover Magritte's paintings "La Trahison des Images (Ceci n'est pas une pipe)" and "L'Empire des Lumières"!

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Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "a painter", "Belgian", "an artist", "to discover [something]", "art", "a painting", "immediately", "a style", "to combine [something] and [something]", "ordinary", "abstract", "strange", "to find [something]", "poetic", "where", "a street", "by night/by day", "a sky".

Written by Qualified French Expert Aurélie Drouard HKH, Licence d'anglais LLCE
Last updated: 2025-10-08

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You’ll practise: Le Présent (Indicatif), Pluriel, Adjectif possessif

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My favourite painter is (the) Belgian artist René Magritte. I discovered his art at school, when I saw the painting "The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe)" in a book. I immediately liked his style. His paintings combine ordinary objects and (some) more abstract and strange ideas. I find him very poetic. My favourite painting is "The Empire of Light" where you see a street by night with a sky by day. This work fascinates me. I really want to go to Brussels one day to be able to visit his museum.

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