Untitled (T1980-K5) 1980

Hans Hartung made this untitled painting around 1980, and it looks like he used brushes, but also maybe rags and spray paint too. I'm trying to imagine Hartung in the studio, working on this—the canvas laid out, maybe on the floor, or maybe tacked to the wall. He's layering these marks, a big inky shape on one side that almost looks like a shadow or storm cloud, and then this cascade of strokes on the other, like a dark waterfall. The paint isn't super thick here, but there's a texture to it, a kind of blurring and smudging that suggests he's working fast, almost fighting with the surface. It’s all about feeling, you know? That gesture of dark strokes reminds me of Franz Kline, but also Cy Twombly's scribbles – artists in conversation, maybe even arguing, across time. It's like they're all trying to find a way to express something that can't be put into words. Painting is like that – it's this ongoing, evolving conversation, where artists build on each other’s ideas and push the boundaries of what’s possible.