Père et mère au fiacre 1954

Endre Rozsda made "Père et mère au fiacre" using oil on canvas and what I see are dominant gestural marks and a blue, cream and black palette. You can see the act of painting itself—how the artwork has come into being, shifting and emerging through trial, error, and intuition. Rozsda might have been thinking about memory and storytelling when he made it. The paint is thin. The material aspects of painting, like texture, color, surface, and the physicality of the medium shape our experience of the painting. See that line that creates the couple's shoulders as they sit in the fiacre? It communicates everything that can be felt when in love. "Père et mère au fiacre" connects to Rozsda's wider practice and body of work, as well as the work of other painters who embrace ambiguity and uncertainty, allowing for multiple interpretations.