River Uzh 1930

Adalbert Erdeli mixed up a cocktail of greens, yellows, and pinks to make this landscape, River Uzh. The way the paint's applied, thick and juicy, makes me think about the sheer physicality of painting. You can almost feel the artist wrestling with the canvas. Was he outside? I wonder what it felt like, standing there trying to capture the light dancing on the water. I feel that struggle, that energy, in every brushstroke. Those trees along the riverbank, they're not just green, right? There's a touch of red, a hint of purple. Look at the way the light hits them, and how the colors reflect in the water. The water, too, becomes a canvas in its own right, echoing the hues of the land and sky above. It’s like Erdeli is in conversation with the Fauves but also pushing back, trying to do his own thing, find his own way. It’s a reminder that painting is an ongoing conversation, artists building on each other's ideas, challenging each other. Each stroke, each color choice, is a step in that dialogue, a way of making sense of the world, one brushstroke at a time.