His dad was a tailor and textile merchant, and his mom was a house wife. Magritte was the oldest out of his siblings, and started drawing lessons in 1910, at the age of 12. Besides this, not much is known about his childhood, for he never talked about it. From 1916 to 1918, Magritte attended the Academies Royale des Beaux Arts in Brussels. He left the school, because he thought that it was a waste of time. All his paintings afterward reflect cubism and futurism, the movements popular at the time. In this essay, I will explain about my favorite image in each period of René François Ghislain Magritte