Landscape 1955

Adja Yunkers made this print called, Landscape, and it looks like a woodcut, maybe. The thing that grabs me first is the boldness of the marks. Big, confident strokes of black ink dominating the space, with this golden yellow peeking out from underneath. It’s all about the push and pull of these two colors, creating a real sense of depth and movement. You can almost feel the artist’s hand as they carved away at the wood, leaving these powerful gestures behind. Check out that tiny fleck of red. It's like a little spark, right at the heart of the composition. It’s subtle, but it changes everything, doesn’t it? It adds this layer of tension and surprise. Yunkers was part of the Abstract Expressionist movement, and you can see that spirit here: this idea of art as a direct expression of feeling, made visible through the artist’s touch. For me, this piece echoes the work of someone like Franz Kline, in its raw energy and focus on the act of mark-making itself. It’s like a conversation between artists, across time and space.