Green Mountain Man 1975

Ronnie Landfield made "Green Mountain Man" with paint, of course, but the questions are always *how* and *why*? This ground of green is like an atmosphere, a feeling, and then these marks sit on top, some floating, some anchored. He's got lines playing a game of perspective, leading you in and then, BAM, they stop. It makes you wonder what he was thinking, right? Was he trying to capture a landscape, or was it more about the pure joy of putting color next to color? Landfield is part of this lineage of color field painters, like Jules Olitski, who were all about pouring and staining, making the paint a part of the canvas. Each artist is in conversation, trying to push things further, to find new ways of making us see and feel. It's this ongoing experiment, and that's what makes painting so alive.