After Image of Brittany 1940

Benjamin Frazier Cunningham made this black and white print, called 'After Image of Brittany,' and it’s a real study in seeing, isn't it? The way he's broken down the figure and the landscape into these angular shapes – it’s like he's trying to get at the underlying structure of things, the bones of the image. Look at the way the light seems to flicker and shift, as though he's translated a fleeting moment into a solid thing. It reminds me of Cezanne, with his blocks of color and his determination to find the geometry in nature. And then there’s the texture he’s created by the marks; it’s like he’s building the image from the ground up, one tiny stroke at a time. It makes you want to reach out and touch it, to feel the grain of the paper and the weight of the ink. It's like a conversation between the artist, the material, and the world he's trying to capture. Art always thrives on these conversations.