How does The Palace of the Windowed Rocks elucidate its Description?
The title of the painting comes from the influence of the Atlas Mountains in Tanguy's work, which he referred to as "castles". The canvas has been described as depicting a desolate lunar landscape that shows, "a world that only looks as if it were real but appears as a coherence of facts put together with unshakable necessity...and it realizes a kind of world experiencing with correlative objects that seem to be real (comparable to a trompe-l'œil) although they can never be found in the real world (contrary to a trompe-l'œil)."
trompe-l'œil Atlas Mountains