Krajobraz wiejski z drzewami 1921

Tadeusz Makowski made this painting of a rural landscape with trees with oil on canvas. The colours in this painting are really muted, like looking at a memory. It's so interesting to me how the brushstrokes almost blend together, creating this hazy, dreamlike effect. Look at the big tree on the left, see how it's made up of all these individual dabs of paint? It's like Makowski is building the tree from the ground up, one brushstroke at a time. I get the impression that he’s really interested in the process of painting itself. The way he’s layered the paint gives the whole scene a lovely texture, like you could reach out and feel the roughness of the bark or the softness of the grass. It kind of reminds me of some of Camille Pissarro's landscapes, that same attention to light and atmosphere, but with Makowski's own unique touch. Art is one big conversation, right?