Untitled (T1980-K5) 1980

Hans Hartung made this Untitled painting in 1980 with acrylic on canvas. It’s a dance between control and letting go. Look at the left, there’s a kind of smoky, atmospheric wash, like a storm cloud brewing. Then, bam! A vertical cascade of furious black marks on the right. It’s as if Hartung attacked the canvas with a loaded brush, letting the paint splatter and drip. The texture is raw, immediate. You can almost feel the energy of the gesture, the speed of his hand. It’s thick in some places, scratched away in others, revealing the canvas beneath. That dark, sweeping gesture contrasts with the lighter, almost bruised color behind it. It’s like a release, an emotional purge. Hartung, like Joan Mitchell, used abstraction to express something deeply felt, something beyond words. It’s not about representation, but about feeling.