Lago umbro 1942

Gerardo Dottori painted Lago umbro with what looks like tiny little brushstrokes, building up a whole world from what feels like pure process. It’s like he’s trying to capture not just what a landscape looks like, but what it feels like to move through it. I’m really drawn to the texture he creates; look at how the green hills roll around that blue lake. It’s almost dizzying, like the landscape is alive and breathing. There is something hypnotic about the way that the hills closest to us are rendered with such detail, before gradually fading into more abstracted forms as we move towards the horizon line. This focus on layering and rhythm reminds me of Hilma af Klint, especially how she tried to visualize unseen forces through repeated motifs and patterns. Dottori might be showing us a lake, but he's also hinting at something deeper, a kind of energy that connects everything.