Magritte, René Syllabification: (Ma·gritte, René)Pronunciation: /məˈgrēt, ma-/Definition of Magritte, René (1898–1967), Belgian surrealist painter; full name René François Ghislain Magritte. His paintings are startling or amusing juxtapositions of the ordinary, the strange, and the erotic, depicted in a realist manner. Magritte, René in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of Magritte, René in the British & World English dictionary