Femmes cousant 1913

Albert Gleizes made 'Femmes cousant' with oils on canvas using a cubist style of painting. The composition is built up using geometric forms and a palette of greens, browns, greys, and whites. I can imagine him working on this, maybe in his studio in Paris. He starts with loose sketches, breaking down the figures and landscape into geometric forms. Then, he painstakingly builds up the painting, carefully applying the colors, and adjusting the composition until it all comes together into a harmonious whole. Each brushstroke and colour choice contributes to the painting's overall feeling of rhythm and movement. You know, the way he overlaps the planes and facets, creating a sense of depth and space, or how he repeats shapes and colours, creating visual echoes and connections. Painters are in an ongoing conversation, riffing off each other's ideas and experimenting with new ways of seeing. Painting’s not about getting it ‘right’, it’s about the ongoing process of discovery, where new possibilities emerge.