Pot de fleurs 1922

Georges Valmier made this "Pot de fleurs" with paint and canvas, somewhere and sometime around 1922. The painting is like a puzzle, isn't it? Shapes locking together, not quite making a realistic picture, but something more... Valmier's shapes feel solid. I can imagine him carefully filling each one with its color, making sure the edges meet just so. I see him stepping back to assess what he's done, adding a stripe here, a curve there, always figuring out how the colors play off each other. And that blue vase! It anchors the whole composition, doesn't it? Like a solid presence amidst all the playful abstraction. It makes me think about how painters borrow from each other, playing with ideas across time and space. Each brushstroke, each color choice, is a conversation, a response to what's come before and a challenge to what might come next.