Romantic landscape 1926

Konstantin Bogaevsky made this Romantic Landscape, probably with charcoal on paper, and you can almost feel the grit of it, can't you? I can imagine him outside, squinting at the light and then pushing that charcoal around, maybe getting frustrated and smudging it with his fingers. See how the trees in the foreground are almost scribbled in, a furious energy there, but then the mountains in the back have this soft, hazy quality? Maybe he was thinking about Caspar David Friedrich and those epic, lonely landscapes. The marks are so deliberate, like he's building up this whole world from scratch, one little stroke at a time. It's like he's saying, "Here, look, this is how I see it, this is how I feel it." And that's what painting is all about, right? An artist in conversation with the world, and with all the other artists who came before.