Kervaudu Garden, Climbing Roses 1915

Ferdinand du Puigaudeau captured this garden scene with oil on canvas using short, choppy brushstrokes. The overall effect is a warm, sun-drenched space filled with pink and red flowers against pale buildings. You can almost feel the artist standing there, squinting in the bright light, trying to capture the essence of this idyllic garden. What do you think he was thinking, as he built up the layers of paint, coaxing those textures and colors into being? Notice the way the paint is applied – thick in some areas, thin in others. Look at the way the strokes of pink and red dance across the canvas, animating the rose bushes. It's like a conversation between the artist, the subject, and the paint itself. Puigaudeau makes me think of other painters like Bonnard or Vuillard, who also loved to capture intimate, domestic scenes. They were all part of a larger conversation about how to see and represent the world around them. Painting is like that, an ongoing dialogue across time, where artists inspire each other to see things in new ways. It's a messy, intuitive process full of trial and error, but that's where the magic happens.