Les grands transparents 1958

Pierre Alechinsky has made this painting called, Les grands transparents, with blues, whites, and a whole lot of looping lines and gestural marks. I'm trying to imagine the making of this artwork. Layer upon layer, the image shifts and emerges through trial, error, and intuition. I can almost feel the artist's hand moving across the canvas, pushing and pulling the paint, maybe even wiping it away and starting again. The paint looks fairly thick, so there's a real physicality to it, you know? Like, you can see the traces of the brushstrokes, the build-up of texture. It's not trying to hide anything. When I look at a particular looping gesture, it's like a dance. It communicates feeling, intention, and meaning. All of this, this play with form and color is like artists are having a never-ending conversation, inspiring each other across time. It's this embodied expression that allows for ambiguity and uncertainty, letting us interpret the art in our own way.