Landscape 1970

Hryhorii Havrylenko's "Landscape" feels like a fleeting impression rendered with oil paint. I can just imagine Havrylenko in front of his easel, mixing those greens, maybe with a palette knife. The texture! It’s got these small, distinct strokes, like dabs of color almost standing up from the canvas. They give the whole scene this vibrating, alive feeling. It’s like he's capturing a memory, a moment of seeing – I can almost smell the leaves and the grass! The way he layers those greens and blues makes the eye jump around, so it's less about what it is and more about the feeling of being in nature, the light flickering through the trees. There's something about it that reminds me of other landscape painters, like maybe the Impressionists, who were also interested in capturing light and atmosphere. We are all standing on each other's shoulders, borrowing and transforming what came before, in an ongoing conversation.