Acacia 1931

Jindrich Styrsky made this painting, Acacia, playing with colour and form, seeing how shapes can tumble into each other. Looking closely, I'm drawn to the way the paint is applied in layers, almost like a collage of colours. The rigid lines create a sense of depth and dimension, while the soft blues and yellows evoke a dreamy quality. Then there are the spheres on the right, they're not quite solid, as if they're about to dissolve into the background. The texture isn't super obvious, but you sense it’s there, grounding the piece. It makes me think about how we construct our realities, piecing together fragments of perception and imagination. Styrsky, like Tanguy, was a surrealist. His work embraces the strange and unexpected and suggests there is always more to discover beneath the surface.