Bay 1924

Boleslas Biegas made this painting, called "Bay", with oil on canvas. Look at the way Biegas layers those blues and browns, really building up a mood, a sense of foreboding. It's like he’s not just painting a place, but a feeling, a memory. I am drawn to the texture in the rock face, and how the paint is so thick in some areas you can almost feel the weight of the place. Then your eye travels up to the building in the center, flanked by those strange looming trees. Are they trees, or figures? How the sky is an ominous blue, but then you see the little squares of bright yellow in the windows, and it feels like a little bit of hope amidst the gloom. It’s so weird, but it’s the kind of weird that sticks with you. Like looking at a Magritte painting. You can almost feel his presence in the work, and you know that is the beginning of something interesting.