Houses in Montmartre 1931

George Bouzianis’s "Houses in Montmartre", is a drawing that wriggles with the immediacy of crayon on paper. It’s less about capturing a scene, and more about the sheer act of noticing, a process of sifting and sorting what you see into a field of marks. The crayon is dragged, scumbled, and layered, creating a surface that feels both chaotic and strangely harmonious. Take the rooftop for instance; see how red, blue and black lines converge, jostling for space, and somehow evoking the texture of tiles baking under a Parisian sun? There's a kind of joyful abandon in the application, a sense that Bouzianis is working quickly, intuitively, allowing the medium to dictate the form. The lines are thin and transparent, allowing the paper to breathe through. This reminds me of other artists like Guston who are interested in the poetics of the incomplete or the provisional. It’s in these moments of ambiguity that art becomes most alive, a space for dialogue and imaginative projection rather than a static, fixed object.