Landscape at Eforie 1971

Vasile Dobrian made this painting, Landscape at Eforie, with what looks like oil on canvas, though the brushwork is so subtle. The surface is really smooth, like he’s trying to get rid of any trace of the hand. The shapes are so simple, but the way they overlap creates such a complex, dream-like space. Like, is that a building? Or just a block of color that happens to look like a building? I think it’s really about the process of seeing. The colors are so flat and quiet, they make you slow down and really look, it's like a memory of a landscape, simplified into these pure, geometric forms. It reminds me a little of some of the early abstractionists, like Mondrian, but with a warmer, more personal feel. Art is really just one big conversation, right? Artists borrowing and building on each other's ideas, trying to find new ways to see the world.