Italiensk landskab 1903 - 1905

Peter Hansen made this Italian Landscape with watercolour on paper, but when? Sometime between 1868 and 1928. It's all about light, isn't it? A wash of blues, pinks, greens, and browns that blend together. The mountains, in the background, seem to flatten and soften, like memory. Up close you see how the paint bleeds, these soft edges give the clouds their volume and shape. You can almost feel the heat rising off the land, the humidity in the air. The way the colors bleed into each other reminds me of Turner, a British painter obsessed with light and atmosphere. It’s like Hansen is trying to capture a feeling, a fleeting moment, rather than a literal depiction. The eye drifts across the scene, taking it all in – the field, the trees, the mountains, and sky. It’s a landscape of mood, and emotion, it's a conversation, a dialogue of colours, across time.