Garden overlooking Oschwand 1938

Cuno Amiet made this painting, Garden overlooking Oschwand, with thick strokes of oil paint, probably en plein air. Look at those greens and blues, all layered on, fighting for space on the canvas! You can almost see Amiet wrestling with the scene, trying to capture the light as it bounces off the leaves and grass. I imagine him standing there, squinting at the landscape, dabbing at the canvas with his brush, stepping back, then lunging forward again. He's got a real Van Gogh thing going on here. It's like he's not just painting what he sees, but how he *feels* about it. That little figure in the distance – is that him? I bet he's thinking about how all painters are really just in conversation with each other across time. Painting is about embracing that uncertainty, you know? There's no one right way to see this garden, just like there's no one right way to live a life. It’s a constant back and forth, a messy, beautiful dialogue that keeps us all going.