Evening landscape 1907

This "Evening Landscape" by Konstantin Bogaevsky is giving me all the feels with its earthy palette and those dreamy strokes. I love how the painting isn't trying to hide its own making. You can almost feel the bristles of the brush that built up the wheat field, like he’s layering time itself. And the way the light is caught – not just painted, but woven into the scene. Look at how those little dabs of white dance on the horizon, creating a shimmer. It's as if Bogaevsky is whispering secrets about light and atmosphere right onto the canvas. That path winding through the field? It reminds me of how memory works – a meandering journey through the past. Bogaevsky’s got this way of making the old feel new, kind of like how Guston took to figuration later in life. It makes you wonder, doesn’t it, about where we’ve been and where we're going, both in art and in life.