Landscape 1910

This landscape was painted by Kmetty János, but we don’t know when. Look at the way the paint is applied, so thinly! It almost feels like watercolour. I love how the colours seem muted and a little bit faded, like an old postcard. The eye is really drawn to the expanse of the large, brown fields in the foreground. They take up a lot of the space, and the paint here is so thin you can really see the texture of the canvas underneath. And then, just look at how those tiny figures standing next to the wagons become part of the landscape. It reminds me a bit of some of Giorgio Morandi's paintings, with their quiet, contemplative mood. Like Morandi, János finds the extraordinary in the ordinary. You are left feeling like art is always a conversation across time. It’s never really about fixed meanings, more about the feeling of it.