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Escher's and Magritte's version of ideal dinner still life with living multi-eyed tentacled oysters crawling from shells, pearls, lobster in quilt sitting on pudding and smoking pipe, bread, butter and plump bottle of wine, simple tablecloth on old wooden table and strange view in window; oil on canvas concept art masterpiece, surrealistic retro painting in style of 1930s with influence of Dutch Golden Era paintings
A surreal still life painting depicting a giant red lobster wearing a patterned blanket and smoking a pipe, perched atop a large, glistening caramel-colored pudding. The pudding sits on a white platter on a table covered with a cream-colored tablecloth featuring a patterned border and stylized cross-like motifs. To the left of the pudding, several oysters with their shells open reveal their pearlescent interiors, accompanied by dark, tentacle-like forms adorned with small white pearls. On the far left, a wooden architectural structure with a rounded arch and stair-like elements supports a silver sphere, from which smaller spheres hang by delicate threads. In the background, visible through a large archway, is a fantastical cityscape under a cloudy sky, where elaborate buildings, some appearing like upside-down birdhouses or bell-shaped towers, float among the clouds above a sprawling, detailed town. To the right of the lobster and pudding, another architectural piece resembling stairs leads up to a tall, twisted, reddish-brown spire topped with a sphere. On the right side of the table, a pat of butter on a small white plate and several loaves of braided bread are arranged beside the tablecloth. The overall lighting casts soft shadows, and the scene is rendered with intricate detail in