Paysage montagneux 1929

Andre Bauchant painted this mountain landscape in 1929, and it's all about how he sees the world, not necessarily how it "really" looks. There's a dreaminess to it, a kind of naive wonder that makes you feel like you're stepping into a storybook. Look at the texture of those mountains, how he's built them up with these almost repetitive strokes. It's like he's carefully constructing this world, piece by piece, with a kind of childlike dedication. The colors are muted, earthy, which gives the whole scene a timeless quality. And then there's that little boat with the figures. It’s as if Bauchant is asking us to consider what it means to find ourselves in a vast, unknown landscape. His influence from artists like Henri Rousseau, who painted what he felt, not what he saw, and celebrated the art of seeing with fresh eyes. Art is always a conversation, a way of seeing and feeling that evolves.