How René Magritte Became the Grudging Father of Pop Art – Magritte took issue less with the undeniable visual link between Pop and his own paintings—disjunctive, saturated (sur)realities—than with what he considered to be the movement’s “sugar-coated” recycling of Dadaist principles.
JSTOR on René Magritte
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