The Greatest and Holiest of Tangla 1929

Nicholas Roerich made The Greatest and Holiest of Tangla without noting its date, but you can see how he was interested in capturing a landscape with paint. The way Roerich applied paint is so interesting, right? Look at the sky and the mountains. The paint is flat, kind of matte, but somehow still luminous. There are no visible brushstrokes. It’s like he’s trying to capture the essence of light and space rather than a realistic depiction. And those colors, that muted palette of blues, browns, and whites, evokes a sense of serenity and spiritual depth. I'm drawn to the texture of the mountains. How the paint looks so smooth. I wonder what kind of brushes he used. I also notice how the shapes are simplified. It's like he's boiling down the mountains to their most essential forms. It reminds me a little of Agnes Martin's landscapes but with a mystical twist. It makes me think about how artists from different times and places can all be wrestling with similar ideas about space, form, and the human connection to nature.