February 13th 2025 | DAF

Landschaft in Füssen | Alexej von Jawlensky, 1905

I love impressionistic paintings like this where you can really see each brushstroke. It is like the painting is a millions scenes in one, because the painting has the potential to change so much with different perspectives. I have always been interested by how paintings like this lay the different colors together to create these intricate colors as apposed to mixing the exact color they see in front of them or they have in mind. It has a scientific element to it, how they utilize how the eye processes colors to have the paint mix in our brains as opposed to mixing colors on an artist’s palette.

I love the use of yellow tones on the mountain. You don’t typically see yellows used when depicting snow. Snow is typically detailed with cooler tones, but the warm tones in the snow left going down the mountain adds a light and warmth to the entire work. The warmth of the piece also comes from the the orange-ish color of the cardboard surface peeking through throughout the work. While the majority if the piece is done in these muted tones that give the essence of a dreary drive on a cold fall day, the light being emitted from the snowy mountains makes the drive suddenly very cheery and inviting.