Landschaft mit Sonnenblumen 1910

Gabriele Munter made this landscape with sunflowers with oil on cardboard, and it feels like she was really going for it. The way she's laid down these colors, they feel so intuitive. Check out the blues and greens in the background, and how she contrasts this with a fiery red roof. It's not subtle, it's a total statement. When you look at the sunflowers, it’s less about botanical accuracy and more about capturing their essence, their unapologetic yellowness, like concentrated sun. I love the texture here, the paint is so thick you can see every stroke, every decision she made. It's like she was wrestling with the paint to get it just right. What does it mean? Well, art isn’t about answers; it’s about questions. Munter’s work, with its raw emotion and bold color, reminds me a lot of someone like Van Gogh, in how they both take the world and amplify it. It’s all about feeling, not just seeing.