Farmhouses in the Morning 1927

Max Pechstein painted "Farmhouses in the Morning" with thick strokes of blues and greens, bringing to life a small rural village, as if seen through a dream. I can imagine Pechstein standing there, feeling the early morning chill, trying to capture the way light bounces off those quirky little buildings. See how he loaded up his brush with paint, almost sculpting those clouds and the rolling hills? There’s something so visceral about the texture, you can almost feel the roughness of the thatched roofs and the soft grass underfoot. That vivid blue he used for the farmhouse—it's so striking! It’s not just blue; it's alive, pulsating. It reminds me of some of Van Gogh’s bolder choices, that shared impulse to crank up the volume on reality. I bet Pechstein was trying to convey something essential about the way we see, not just what we see. Artists like Pechstein remind us that painting is a conversation across time, a way of sharing visions that can’t be put into words.