Père et mère au fiacre 1954

Endre Rozsda painted "Père et mère au fiacre" with oil on canvas, and it feels like he was really going for it! The palette is kind of dreamy, with blues and creams mixing with these jolts of reds and blacks to give it a nightmarish quality. It’s all about the process, you can really feel him thinking through each brushstroke. Looking at the surface, the paint is really doing its thing, thick in some spots, almost transparent in others. You can practically see him digging in with his brush, especially around the carriage wheels. There's something almost erotic about how the paint comes off the brush, those figures are being born right in front of us. It's not just about the image, but about the emotion and the physicality of creating something. Rozsda’s work, like that of Francis Picabia, embraces these wild, ambiguous spaces where things don’t quite add up, and that's okay. It's like he's saying, “Here’s a feeling, now you figure it out.”