Untitled from The Test of the Title (Le Test du titre) 1966

This untitled print by Pierre Alechinsky is like a page torn from a fever dream! I imagine the artist's hand moving quickly, guided by intuition and chance, making marks that suggest faces, figures, and abstract forms all at once. The limited palette of browns and reds adds to the work's intimacy and urgency, like a secret whispered in the dead of night. Look how the lines dance and weave, creating a sense of movement and energy. You can almost feel the artist's breath on the paper as they wrestled with their inner visions. It reminds me of Guston's late work, where the personal and the political collide in a swirl of raw emotion. It's like they're both saying, "Here's what it feels like to be alive right now, in all its messy, contradictory glory." And that, my friends, is what painting is all about: a conversation across time and space, where artists inspire and challenge each other to see the world in new and unexpected ways.