In the John McTiernan film, Pierce Brosnan’s title character memorably evades authorities with help from a painting. And, of course, lots of men in bowler hats. Turns out, the actor chose the ...

Bowler hats became a signature for the Belgian artist ... that this feat of Surrealism was made almost 600 years ago. One of art history’s most immediately recognizable couples, The Arnolfini ...

The man behind that floating apple and beneath that bowler hat is none other than Magritte ... out between the apple and its leaves. Another painting from 1964, The Taste of the Invisible ...

Courtesy of Art Gallery of New South Wales The surrealist turned pipes, apples, clouds and men in bowler hats into existential questions. In the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Magritte exhibition, ...

In the final scenes, Banning goes to Crown’s apartment but finds only a man in a bowler hat, who presents her with a painting that she once told Crown she preferred over the Monet. She sends the ...

Though perhaps best known for his surrealist depictions of bowler hat-wearing men, Magritte spent a period of 15 years exploring the fleeting transition from day to night in landscape painting.

His public image—the average man in suit and hat, dwelling in the suburban anonymity ... While he stayed in London in 1937 (painting pictures for eccentric aristocrat Edward James’s ballroom ...

but these scenes were actually part of an art installation. Students from Newington College in Sydney, Australia, donned black suits and bowler hats - the favoured attire of the 1970s cartoon ...