Landscape 1930

Kmetty János made this landscape painting with oil on canvas. It's all about these brushy, painterly marks, right? Looking at the way the colours are laid down, you can almost feel him working on it, making decisions, changing his mind. I wonder if Kmetty János felt a little lonely out there in the landscape while painting it. I bet he kept looking back and forth, from the scene to the canvas, trying to capture it all. The paint looks pretty thin, like he’s pushing it around to find the right balance between the shapes and colours. Look at the way he’s painted the wheat or hay bales—so simple, but they totally work. And the trees and the little church, they have these dark, blobby edges. Maybe he felt a connection with other painters, like the Fauves, who were also into using bold colours and shapes. Anyway, it’s cool to see how artists keep building on each other's ideas, you know? Painting’s like this ongoing conversation, and we're all invited to listen in.