The horizon in the summer evening 1995

Alfred Freddy Krupa painted *The horizon in the summer evening* in 1995, using watercolor. Look at the way he’s built up the tone in layers. It’s so subtle, isn’t it? You can really see the way the colors bleed into each other; it’s all about letting the medium do its thing. The texture here is gorgeous, the way the water and pigment interact on the page. You can almost feel the dampness of the paper, or maybe that’s just my imagination running wild! See that darker blue section at the bottom? It’s like a pool of ink, but it’s also the horizon line. I love how it blurs the boundary between representation and abstraction. This piece reminds me of some of Agnes Martin’s quiet, meditative works. But where Martin goes for rigid grids, Krupa lets the watercolor flow freely. It’s a reminder that art is always a conversation, an exchange of ideas across time and space.