Landscape 1979

This is "Landscape," by Sidney Nolan, we don't know exactly when it was made, but it's all about feeling your way through paint, you know? There's this figure, kind of roughly drawn, with a square head, standing in this wild landscape. Nolan's laying down the paint in loose strokes of reds, yellows, and blues, letting the colors blend and bleed into each other. It's not about perfection; it's about the raw energy of putting paint to canvas. I love how you can almost feel the grit and texture of the land. The way he's handled the colors—the muted tones of the earth against the bright blue sky—creates this feeling of vastness. I find it so similar to Arthur Boyd's landscapes, both of these artists really capture something essential about the Australian outback. With Nolan, you get this sense of endless space, like the landscape goes on forever, inviting you to get lost in it.