Fishpond Bottom 1915

Lucien Pissarro made this landscape painting, "Fishpond Bottom," with visible brushstrokes of green, grey, and blue. I can imagine him outside, in the landscape, trying to make sense of what he saw. It’s all fields, foliage, and a distant sea, but his vision is to capture the shimmering sensation of seeing. He’s using the Impressionist technique, breaking down colors into tiny dots, kind of like a mosaic with paint. Look at how he builds up those rolling hills with countless little touches. It's like he’s breathing life into the canvas, one tiny brushstroke at a time. It's fascinating how painting lets us slow down and see the world in a different way. And in this case, the way Pissarro saw it, with light, air, and pure color. Painting is really an embodied expression, I love that about it. Artists inspire each other’s creativity, and isn’t that a beautiful idea?