Summer landscape 1902

This is Picasso’s Summer Landscape, made with oil on canvas at an unknown date. You know, there's something so great about seeing how an artist like Picasso approaches a landscape, it’s never quite what you expect. Look at how the ochre hills roll, almost like waves, and then there are those staccato marks suggesting the grass. It's like he's translating the scene into his own visual language, right? The green trees are blobs, full of life. What really grabs me is the texture. It’s not just a flat surface; you can almost feel the brushstrokes, the way he loaded the paint and dragged it across the canvas. The physicality of the medium is right there, it becomes part of the landscape. It's reminiscent of Van Gogh’s landscapes. Both artists transform what they see into something so intensely felt. It just goes to show, art's an ongoing conversation, isn't it? Everyone's riffing off each other, all the time.