Gezicht op een bergwand, doorsneden door een weg, met rechts een kapel (?) 1907 - 1930

Adolphe Burdet, a Swiss artist, created this image of a mountainside with a road and chapel, but when it was made we don't know. This is no simple snapshot – it’s more like Burdet’s way of dreaming out loud. Look at the texture of the stone. He captures the way light catches on the rock face with a muted palette. I can feel the cool air and hear the distant rush of the waterfall. You know, making art is like having a conversation with the world. I wonder what he was thinking as he composed this scene, maybe contemplating the relationship between nature and human construction. There’s a road and architecture there, but nature is really the star. All artists are magpies, borrowing and riffing off each other, and off the world. I see echoes of Caspar David Friedrich here, that same romantic engagement with the landscape, the sublime. Each artist puts their spin on the eternal questions.