Landscape with Hills and Trees 1916

Janos Mattis-Teutsch created this “Landscape with Hills and Trees” with bold colors and rhythmic lines. I can almost feel him dabbing the paint onto the canvas, the brushstrokes building up a world of rolling hills and dreamy trees. I love how he uses bright yellow and green, like the landscape is vibrating with energy. And that touch of pink? Unexpected, yet it just works! It’s like he’s not just showing us a landscape, but also sharing an emotion, a feeling of joy or maybe nostalgia. I imagine him standing there, lost in the act of painting, making decisions on the fly, adding a touch of blue here, a swirl of yellow there. There’s a dialogue happening between the artist, the painting, and the world outside. It reminds me of Guston, how he also wasn’t afraid to just let it all hang out there on the canvas. It’s all part of this ongoing conversation that painters have with each other, across time.