The good season 1961

René Magritte made this painting, *The good season*, and it has this funny tension between flat shapes and illusionistic depth. The way the green and blue hues create a simple, almost cartoon-like landscape is kind of amazing. You know, looking at the surface, the paint seems applied in a very controlled way. It's not about wild gestures but more about creating distinct shapes with clear edges. The texture is smooth, not much impasto, but the detail in the leaves—those little veins!—it’s all so precise. It’s almost like he's flattening reality, turning it into a graphic design. There’s something playful about the contrast between the realistic rendering of the leaves and the stylized background. It reminds me a bit of Giorgio de Chirico's dreamscapes, where familiar objects are placed in unexpected contexts. It's this blend of ordinary and strange that really makes you question how we see the world. Magritte, like all great artists, is inviting us to look beyond the surface and see the mystery in the everyday.