"Landscape with Sun and Horizon" (Painting #402) by Alphonse Lane, as presented on alphonseLane.com, showcases the artist's signature style of minimalistic surrealism combined with vibrant, dreamlike color palettes. In this piece, Lane constructs a visual narrative using simplified organic forms that suggest clouds, trees, and mountains, all arranged across multiple horizon lines that challenge traditional spatial logic. The central red sun, enclosed within concentric rings of color, acts as an anchor in a sky divided into ethereal strata, evoking both time and transcendence. The use of unnatural color gradients—such as green and black clouds, orange-topped trees, and violet mountains—enhances the fantastical quality of the scene, inviting viewers into a meditative exploration of balance between nature and abstraction. Lane’s characteristic blending of whimsical form and disciplined composition imbues the landscape with a quiet but potent sense of order, pushing the viewer to reimagine conventional representations of nature through a uniquely modern lens.