Landscape with a lake 1900 - 1905

Ladislav Mednyánszky conjures a Landscape with a lake with crayon, charcoal and perhaps watercolour. I can imagine him working on this 'en plein air' trying to capture the scene before the light changed. There is a quietness and an immediacy, a rawness to the marks. The dark scribbles of crayon float on the surface of the paper, evoking the stillness of the open water. Looking at this painting, I think about Constable and the Barbizon school painters who were also drawn to the landscape, trying to capture a sense of time, place, and atmosphere. Mednyánszky’s art also reminds me of the work of contemporary artists, like Catherine Goodman. Her drawings of heads share the same loose, intuitive, and energetic mark making as we see here. The painting feels like a conversation between artists across time, each responding to the world in their own way and inspiring new ways of seeing. It's all about the feeling of the work, about the way you see the world, and how it makes you feel when you look at it.