Three Trees, Georgia 1969

Ivan Albright painted "Three Trees, Georgia" in 1969, and it feels like he made it in one huge breath! It's all about wild, intuitive marks, and I can just imagine him, brush loaded, kind of swiping and slashing at the surface. I'm guessing he's standing up close to the canvas, totally lost in the dance of hand and eye. The colors are a bit off, but the black trees stand tall. Those sweeping strokes of the reflection could be a nod to de Kooning's gestural abstraction. You know, that feeling of paint kind of blurring the line between representation and pure feeling. It’s like Albright is thinking about what painting can do, how it can capture not just what we see but how we feel. Isn't it cool how these painters, across time and place, keep pushing each other?