Two Genii. Sketch 1920 - 1924

Edvard Weie made this painting, titled "Two Genii. Sketch", with oil on canvas. I'm imagining Weie in his studio, maybe a bit restless, building up these figures with confident strokes. It's like he's carving out space with color. Look at how the blues and browns wrestle with the softer pinks and yellows! The paint isn't too thick, but you can feel the gestures, the quick decisions he's making. I wonder if he was thinking about the old masters, maybe even wrestling with their ideas? But he's doing his own thing, breaking down forms into these almost abstract shapes. This feels very much like a painter's painting. Weie is in conversation with other painters, you know? Each one inspiring and challenging the next. Ultimately, it’s all about the joy of looking and responding with our own bodies and minds, right? I love how he embraces ambiguity, how the figures almost dissolve into the background. Like a dance between seeing and feeling.