Landscape Sketch 

Joan Brull’s ‘Landscape Sketch’ offers a dominant visual experience of muted tones and dappled brushstrokes. The composition is structured by a prominent tree trunk set against an ambiguous background, which evokes a sense of serene detachment. Brull’s approach to the materiality of paint is evident in the textured surfaces and broken strokes, creating an overall impression of impermanence. This technique can be interpreted through the lens of semiotics as the artist’s visual code that destabilizes traditional landscape painting’s fixed representations. Here, the relationship between form and content reflects a shift towards subjective experience and challenges the observer to engage with the sensory qualities of the artwork, emphasizing that it exists as an interpretation rather than a mirror of reality.