Broom, Le Brusq 1925

Lucien Pissarro made this landscape painting, Broom, Le Brusq, with oil on canvas. The way he builds up the image with small dabs of color, it’s like he’s inviting us to see how a painting comes into being, bit by bit. The surface is alive with texture; you can almost feel the brushstrokes creating each leaf and flower. Look at how he renders the yellow blooms, it’s like he’s not just painting what he sees, but also how he feels when he sees it, the joy, the light. There's a kind of shimmering effect in the yellow shrubs; each touch of the brush feels deliberate yet spontaneous. It reminds me of Cezanne's broken color technique, that same idea of building form with color patches. Paintings like this remind me that art isn’t about perfection, but about process, about embracing the messy, beautiful struggle of trying to capture a moment. It’s a reminder that meaning isn’t fixed, but something we create through our own looking and feeling.