Mount Abul and passing camels 1912

Martiros Sarian's 'Mount Abul and passing camels' is a landscape conjured from a palette of rich blues, ochres, and sandy yellows. I'm thinking about how it might have felt to paint this, the physicality of pushing that pigment around the canvas. The mountain isn't just a mountain, it's an idea of a mountain, a place born from thick strokes of color. The camels at the foot, rendered with such simplicity, are like little gestures of humanity against this vast, abstracted landscape. Imagine Sarian, brush in hand, trying to capture not just what he sees, but what he feels. The textures, the light, the weight of the paint itself all become part of the story. His work reminds me of other painters who weren’t afraid to let the paint do the talking, like the Fauves with their wild colors. 'Mount Abul and passing camels' invites us to engage with painting as a space of encounter where meaning is constantly shifting. It's an open-ended conversation, a dialogue between artist, artwork, and viewer, all inspired by the simple beauty of camels passing in front of a mountain.