The victory 1939

René Magritte made this painting, "The Victory," with oil on canvas. I imagine him standing before this canvas, brush in hand, conjuring a world where a door stands open to… well, what? The sea? The sky? A big fluffy cloud? Look at the way the door is painted – so matter-of-fact, a very ordinary object, yet it opens onto something completely unexpected. What could Magritte have been thinking? Was he playing with the idea of the impossible, or maybe inviting us to see the world in a different way? That cloud is so dreamlike, juxtaposed with the door so solid and real. It reminds me that art is always about questioning, and about the conversation artists have with each other, across time. Because in the end, there is no final victory, just endless possibilities.