Chateau Saint Point 1982

Włodzimierz Zakrzewski, who lived from 1916 to 1992, made this small painting, Chateau Saint Point, and just look at those juicy strokes of blue, green, and yellow paint. The canvas is thick with it. You know Zakrzewski probably stood outside and painted this, and then went back inside, and then came back outside and added more paint. I wonder if he was thinking about Monet, or maybe even Van Gogh? The way the whole canvas is covered in marks, not in a pointillist way, but in a flurry. He's so into the landscape, so excited about all those trees, he wants you to know that paint can be like bark, or leaves. See that juicy, creamy stroke of yellow highlighting the Chateau’s tower? It's like he is thinking: how can I make a tower out of oil paint? Like Philip Guston, he makes a world by finding the object *in* the painting. It makes you think of how all artists work, as a community, each talking back to each other across time.