Pejzaz ze stogami 

Ferdynand Ruszczyc made this evocative landscape painting, titled *Pejzaz ze stogami,* with oil paint, a traditional medium for fine art. But let's consider the subject, these humble haystacks. Their forms have been built up by hand, through agricultural labor. We might reflect on the contrast between the physical work involved in their creation, and the refined techniques of brushwork used to depict them here. Ruszczyc's loose, painterly style, captures the textures of the hay, with visible strokes of brown, gold, and ochre creating a tactile surface. The haystacks are built from the ground up, by many hands, and are essential to agricultural cycles. The artist asks us to appreciate the beauty and dignity of rural labor and the land. This challenges the traditional hierarchy between art and craft, inviting us to recognize the inherent value in both the making of the painting, and the processes of rural life that it depicts.