It is possible that Magritte's bizarre style of painting can be linked to his mother's death, which happened early in his childhood. In fact, it can be seen in his art in a painting called The Lovers. In it, there is a bag over two embracing lovers' heads, which is similar to the scene he witnessed when his mother died. Also, his Surrealist edge can be traced to when he viewed a Giorgio de Chirico painting and wept at its genius. Magritte was very well known for his juxtaposition techniques. He would take two images that made no sense together and place them in the painting side by side. The objects in the paintings were rendered realistically, using foreshortening and chiaroscuro. Magritte often had "word paintings", where he would show a picture of an object, followed by a word that really was never associated with that object. Magritte believed that words really had no meanings, other than the fact that we attach meanings to them arbitrarily.