Mirror 1936

Nicholas Gorid’s ‘Mirror’, with its detailed and deliberate watercolour strokes, feels so intimate. I imagine him hunched over it, carefully rendering each flourish and delicate tassel. You know, I’ve always been fascinated by the art of seeing, and this painting… it’s like a study in reflection, both literal and metaphorical. Look at the watery blues and greens he’s used within the mirror's surface –it reminds me of Rothko’s translucent veils of color, where the paint seems to breathe and shift before your eyes. But where Rothko goes big, Gorid goes small, precise. The frame around the mirror isn't just decoration; it's like the bars of a cage, or the boundaries of our own self-image. What does he see when he looks in a mirror? What do we see? And what does it mean to capture that fleeting reflection on paper? I bet that’s what Gorid was thinking about when he made this.