January 27th 2025 | Daily Art Find

Guenilles | Marie Zolamian, 2024

This is a great of example of painting that people might look at and say "I could make that," but the truth is you probably couldn't and most importantly you didn't.

If anyone else tried to recreate this, the seemingly random brush strokes could easily come across as awkward, the layers might be applied at the wrong interval thus ruining the blended moments, and the green and pink florals that appear aimlessly applied are suddenly in an unbelievable position that ruins the illusion.

I translated the title and it says it means "rags." I'm not sure what that's about, but I'm choosing to see this as some flowers blooming in a wheat field and will analyze the art as if I'm right about that. I like how the thinness of the wheat is illustrated by both mixing in the wheat shades with the wet blue sky paint and also applying the strands of wheat with a dry brush to utilize the streakiness effect. The flowers are spaces throughout the work while also seeming perfectly placed on their respective stalks of wheat. The scene might be simple, but that simpleness was carefully and strategically created.