The beneficial promise 1927

René Magritte made "The Beneficial Promise" with oil on canvas. The brushstrokes are smooth, creating a polished and dreamlike finish. The colours are muted, but the composition is far from dull! A woman in profile floats above a hand resting on a sphere. I imagine Magritte carefully considering each element, layering the paint to create a sense of depth and stillness. The hand resting on the sphere is intriguing. The gesture communicates a feeling of quiet contemplation, an openness to the unknown. Magritte had a knack for disrupting our expectations. Like other surrealist painters, he creates an enigmatic experience. It seems to say something about the strange relationship between reality and the subconscious. A bit like life, painting opens up possibilities to make something out of nothing. We are still talking about it, aren’t we?