Two Genii. Sketch 1920 - 1924

Edvard Weie's “Two Genii. Sketch” is an interesting piece of oil on canvas from the early 20th century; just look at how he dives right into the process. The canvas is alive with the materiality of the paint itself. Weie lays down these strokes, wet on wet, in colours that seem both deliberate and accidental. The figures aren't so much depicted as conjured up through layers of pigment. I’m drawn to the way Weie uses color to define form, that slash of orange across the green figure's shoulder, it hints at three-dimensionality without fully committing. Thinking about art as an ongoing conversation, I can’t help but see echoes of someone like Kirchner, not in style, but in the shared pursuit of capturing a kind of raw, emotional honesty. Ultimately, this painting is less about answers and more about the questions it provokes.