Belgian artist René Magritte used images of paintings on easels (within his paintings) that appeared to continue beyond the borders of the canvas. What point was he trying to make?
A) By making his images look ridiculous, he challenged the viewer to react against surrealist trends in art.
B) He used visual illusions to make political statements about the futility of democracy.
C) There is no line between the "real world" and the illusory world, or that everything is an illusion.
D) He created impossible figures, like Escher did, in order to demonstrate that it was impossible to separate art from the artist.
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