Le Sentier près des maisons 

Léo Gausson’s ‘Le Sentier près des maisons’ presents a landscape where clusters of buildings nestle amid the verdant foreground. The thick brushstrokes and high-keyed colours create a vibrant, almost palpable surface, drawing you into this rural scene. Gausson employs a structural approach to colour, reminiscent of Post-Impressionist techniques. Each dab of paint seems carefully considered, contributing to an overall mosaic effect. The composition’s flattened perspective challenges traditional depth, pushing the foreground and background closer together. The materiality of the paint is essential here, as it builds a tactile quality that emphasizes the painting’s status as an object, not merely a representation. By disrupting conventional perspective and celebrating the medium, Gausson invites us to reconsider how we perceive space and form. This interplay between representation and abstraction places the artwork within a dialogue about the nature of seeing itself.