In The Forest 1916

Heinrich Campendonk made "In The Forest," probably with oil on canvas, and right away you see how he's built this world with layers of color – deep blues and reds, mixed with those strange, pastel-like shades. I bet he was thinking about how nature isn't just green, but a mix of dark and light, a total kaleidoscope. You can almost feel the cool air of the forest, the way the light hits those angular trees, making everything sharp and a little unreal. There’s this figure and some deer, but they’re almost part of the landscape, as if Campendonk saw people and animals as just another element of this strange, colorful forest. It reminds me a bit of the Expressionists, but with its own quirky twist. Campendonk is showing us that painting isn't just about copying what you see, but feeling it, making something new out of it. It's like he's saying, "Here's a forest, but not like any you've seen before."