Armour 1925

Andre Masson made "Armour" with what looks like oil or tempera, maybe both, building up layers of tone on tone. It’s a process that feels like a kind of slow reveal. Up close, you can see how the paint is dabbed and dragged, creating a surface that's both smooth and textured. The colors are muted, almost monochromatic, but within that limited palette, there's a real sense of depth and dimension. See how the form of the torso seems to emerge from the background, like it's pushing forward, but also receding at the same time? That’s process at work. Masson’s work has a similar sense of the body as a kind of landscape, not in a classical way but almost biomorphic. It reminds me of some of the earlier cubist works by Picasso and Braque, where the figure is broken down and reassembled into something new and strange. Art is all about conversations like this: building on, pushing against, and reimagining what came before. It's an open-ended process with no right or wrong answers, just different ways of seeing.