Udsigt gennem et vindue til en strand, Sydfrankrig 1935

Edvard Weie made this watercolor called "View Through a Window to a Beach, Southern France," and the window is not just a frame but a way of seeing. I can imagine him dabbing the paper with watery blues and ochres, building up the image from loose washes, letting the colors bleed and mingle. Did he start with the window frame, those pale blue verticals and horizontals, or did the landscape emerge first? He’s really playing with the push and pull between inside and outside, solid and fluid, seen and imagined. The blobs of color feel so intuitive. The lower yellow blob sits forward, while the watery blues recede. There's a conversation here with Matisse, who also used windows to frame views and explore the relationship between interior space and the world outside. It’s all about how artists see and translate what they see into marks and colors, each one building on the other’s vision. Painting is like that, a constant dialogue across time.