Church at Orgeruse 1908

This is Auguste Herbin's "Church at Orgeruse," and it’s like looking through a kaleidoscope, isn't it? All these shapes locking together. I'm picturing Herbin, brush in hand, eyes darting from the scene to the canvas, trying to find the underlying structure. It’s not just about copying what's in front of you, but finding a new way to see, a new language. And that language is all about color and form. Those outlines! Electric turquoise, framing the trees like neon. The whole scene is distilled, right? The church, the road, the trees – they're all just shapes, but they sing together. It reminds me of other painters— like maybe Léger and those guys. The way they broke things down to their simplest forms. And that’s what painting is, isn’t it? A conversation across time, each artist riffing on what came before, trying to make something new.