Early Evening 1932 - 1933

Mikuláš Galanda painted ‘Early Evening’ with oil on canvas, and the hazy atmosphere seems to have emerged, layer by layer, through intuition and memory. I really feel for Galanda, trying to distill something quiet and huge, like a mountain, into a little block of feeling. The paint is laid on pretty thinly, like he’s trying to catch the light just so. He’s got these deep blues and greens, pulling back, pushing forward, and then that simple cloud sitting right behind the peaks. It reminds me that painting isn't just about what you see, but what you feel when you see it. It makes me want to grab a brush and try to find that same hush in my own way. We are all on our own path, I guess, but we can see that it is really the same mountain!