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Magritte wrote about this painting; 'I can imagine a sunny landscape under a night sky; only a god is capable of visualizing it and conveying it through the medium of paint, however. In the expectation that I will become one, I am dropping the project...'
It takes a few reads to understand that statement, but basically he says the painting is a (cliche?) sunny landscape but how it would look at night. its part of surrealism.
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