Sifnos 1972

Panayiotis Tetsis made 'Sifnos' and he's conjuring up a landscape with a brush that's really going for it. The way he handles the paint is pretty exciting. It's thick, juicy, almost like he's sculpting with color. Look at the lower section of the canvas, see how the dark green kind of dominates. But then your eye darts around, catching those little pops of yellow and the white and blue hints of a building. It's like he's not just painting what he sees, but also what he feels. There's this great back-and-forth between what's representational and what's just pure, luscious paint. It reminds me a bit of Guston, that push and pull, where the image almost dissolves into the act of painting itself. And that’s what makes art so interesting, right? It's never just one thing.