Midday Silence 1924

Martiros Sarian created this painting, Midday Silence, using oil on canvas. It's a landscape that feels both familiar and otherworldly, like a dream you half-remember. The way Sarian lays down the paint is interesting; it's not about detail but about feeling. Look at the ochre hills, thick and matte, almost edible. Then, there's that mountain range, a lavender dream under a puffy cloud. The brushstrokes are visible everywhere, a record of his hand moving across the canvas. The shadows are these bold blue strokes, not subtle, but declarative. They create a rhythm, a pulse that moves across the canvas. There's a patch of green and blue in the middle ground; it draws the eye in and then lets it wander again. It reminds me of Gauguin, or maybe even Milton Avery, not in style, but in the way they both simplified the world into these blocks of color. Art is always a conversation, right? A remix of what came before, turned into something new. It's not about answers; it's about keeping the questions alive.