Balchik 

Sever Burada painted this landscape of Balchik using oil on canvas. The texture of the paint is thick, applied in short, deliberate strokes that capture the light and shadow of the Black Sea coast. Consider how oil paint, as a material, has shaped our expectations for what painting can be. Its slow drying time allows for layering and blending, techniques that were essential to the development of representational painting from the Renaissance onwards. But here, in Balchik, the paint is less about perfect illusionism, and more about capturing the essence of a place. While Burada may have mixed his own paints, pigment production has long been industrialized and commercialized, and the readymade tubes of oil color he most likely used reflect that history. Ultimately, the painting is a testament to the enduring appeal of landscape as a subject. It's a reminder that even in our industrialized world, there's still a place for the handmade, the carefully observed, and the beautifully rendered.