April landscape 1944

Martiros Sarian painted this landscape using oil on canvas, and he certainly wasn't afraid of colour. The painting seems to have come into being through bold strokes, shifting and emerging with a clear intuition for colour. I really sympathize with Sarian here and I imagine what it must have been like to stand in this landscape. What might he have been thinking as he built up layer upon layer of paint? Just look at that one dominant gesture: that blue tree in the foreground! I love the way it shimmers, becoming almost like a mirage, and how it holds the whole composition together. Sarian was really part of an ongoing conversation about colour and light. It's like he's having a dialogue with artists such as Matisse, exploring how colours can evoke emotion. Painting, after all, is just a form of expression. It embraces ambiguity, allowing for multiple interpretations, meaning that our readings can shift over time.