The great table 1965

René Magritte made ‘The Great Table’ using oil on canvas. Look at those apples! They loom large against the skyline, don’t they? I imagine Magritte painting away, thinking about scale, perception, and all those everyday objects we take for granted. It’s like he’s saying, “Hey, let’s look at this stuff again, but this time let's shift our perspective.” The surface of the painting feels smooth and cool, like a dream you can almost touch. I wonder what it felt like to paint those clouds, soft and puffy against the electric blue. Magritte's work always seems to invite you into this strange, serene world, where the familiar becomes wonderfully bizarre. He messes with your head in the best possible way, and it's like he's saying, "Come on, let's play with reality a bit." Painters are always riffing off each other, right? Each artwork is a nod to the past, and a step into the future. That’s what makes painting so exciting – it’s this ongoing conversation where nothing is ever really resolved, but everything is always changing.