Girl in front of a Shepherd’s Hut 1925 - 1935

Arnold Peter Weisz-Kubínčan painted this dreamy scene of a girl and hut, and the landscape that surrounds them, in these hazy, soft greens and blues and reds. I can imagine him outside, squinting a little, holding the painting, looking back and forth from the scene to the canvas, again and again, trying to grasp the scene with the brush. What's it like to be him, trying to make something of the world? Trying to make this world? There's the shepherd's hut with this girl—I think she's a girl—standing out front, and everything else is kind of dissolved. The paint is applied pretty thinly. It's a sort of gentle gesture, a gentle record. It’s easy to imagine him in conversation with other painters like Bonnard or Vuillard—painters who just are trying to be gentle, and show you the gentleness that they're able to find in the world. This painting has a way of expressing its own making, and the fact that painting is this conversation between people over time.