Naked woman at the window c. 1922

"Naked Woman at the Window" is an artwork made by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The pink figure stands in front of a window in this painting, and the dabs of red, green and blue compete for space, all held together by the blue frame of the window. I like to imagine Kirchner painting this, maybe in his studio. A space full of energy, where the act of painting becomes a way of seeing and feeling, a language of its own. Look at the thickness of the paint, it's like he's wrestling with the image, pushing and pulling until it finds its form. The woman is rendered in thick strokes of pink, standing almost brazenly, not in a coy way. She stands there, a form emerging from the colours, asking us to see beyond the surface, to feel the energy, the vulnerability, the sheer physicality of being in the world. It reminds me of other painters like Munch or Nolde, who were also trying to capture something raw and visceral in their work. We're all just trying to figure things out, you know? And art is how we talk to each other across time.