Landscape from the Jura Mountains 1924

Curator: Oh, what a dreamy, almost childlike vision! It feels like a memory trying to surface. Editor: Well said. This watercolor by Cuno Amiet, titled "Landscape from the Jura Mountains," captures that very sensation. The Jura mountains, of course, were a recurring subject for him. Curator: The vertical strokes above those blue hills…rain, perhaps? Or some sort of symbolic cleansing? It feels almost biblical. Editor: Amiet was certainly interested in distilling nature to its essence. Those repetitive lines, like primitive markings, could easily represent rain, but they also hint at something deeper, a cyclical renewal. He's inviting us to connect with the elemental power of the landscape. Curator: There’s a raw honesty to it, a vulnerability. It's like he's saying, "This is what I saw, this is how I felt." That's brave. Editor: Absolutely, and it's what makes Amiet's work so enduringly evocative.