Vajda Lajos , Pettyegetett Ház 1936 1936

Vajda Lajos painted this piece, "Pettyegetett Haz," in 1936 using paint. Check out the surface of the painting, how it is speckled with these tiny dots that make it look like it’s breathing or shimmering with light. I wonder if he was thinking about the sensation of memory, how a place imprints on our minds not as a perfect image but as a collection of textures and colors. The house itself is constructed from flat geometric shapes, a patchwork of different hues, pale greens, blues, and dark shades that make up the building. It feels both solid and fragile, like a dream you can almost grasp but slips away as you try to hold on. I like to think about Lajos communing with artists like Klee and Kandinsky; all kindred spirits trying to find new ways of representing inner landscapes. There’s a sense of poetry here, an intimate, quiet moment.