When you enter visually into the sumptuous scene captured in this painting, the unknown artist is playing with you. They are teasing you to slightly suspend your careful awareness of the world around you and play. The idea behind Surrealism, which came to the fore following the misery of World War I, was to release the unconscious in the search for a different kind of beauty, one delighting in the unexpected, the uncanny, in a dreamscape contradicting reality to form a "super-reality." So, if constant podcast prattle and doom scrolling is getting you down, here is an antidote.