Still life with red gladioli 1915

Pyotr Konchalovsky, sometime in the 20th century, painted "Still Life with Red Gladioli" with oils on canvas, and man, is it a party of impasto and saturated color! I can almost feel the artist working on this piece, wrestling with the paint to get those flowers just right. It's like he's building a garden right in front of us! Look at how he layers those thick strokes of red and green to create the gladioli. It's like he's trying to capture the very essence of their bloom. Those flowers are so vibrant, they almost feel like they're reaching out of the painting. I wonder if Konchalovsky was thinking about Van Gogh's sunflowers when he made this painting, or maybe Matisse's experiments with color. Painters are always talking to each other, across time and space, riffing on each other's ideas. It's one big, beautiful conversation!