Hest og vogn i gate c. 1920

This watercolour by Edvard Munch gives us a glimpse of a horse and carriage in a street. Munch wasn’t just trying to capture a scene; he was exploring how to see it, how to feel it. Look at the washes of colour. The way he allows the pigment to pool and bleed. This speaks to me of a process of letting go. The colours are diluted, like memories fading into the distance. There's a beautiful patch of blue defining the carriage wheel, almost dissolving into the paper. It’s not just colour; it's emotion, it's atmosphere. This work reminds me a little of Emil Nolde, another master of colour and feeling. Both artists understood that art is not about perfect representation, but about embracing the messy, beautiful ambiguity of life.