Mountain landscape 1942

Konstantin Bogaevsky painted this mountain landscape, and what strikes me is how the colours swirl together like notes in a song. There’s a real physicality to the paint here; you can almost feel the artist layering each stroke, building up the mountains and trees with this raw energy. Look closely, and you’ll see how the light bursts from the centre, pushing and pulling at the shapes around it. I find myself drawn to the rugged texture of the mountain peaks, these jagged edges that seem to reach out, inviting you into the scene. Bogaevsky reminds me a bit of someone like Marsden Hartley, in the way he uses the landscape not just as a subject, but as a way to express something deeper, something almost spiritual. It’s the kind of work that stays with you, offering new ways of seeing each time you come back to it.