Two Women in the Garden 1919

Edvard Munch made this painting, Two Women in the Garden, and it looks like he was really going for it with the brushstrokes. You can see how he's pushing the paint around to try and make sense of what’s in front of him. The way Munch builds up the colors, it's so physical, like he's wrestling with the image. The faces are so roughly done, almost like masks, and there's this real tension with the space that hasn't been painted. It reminds me of how you start a painting and you're full of excitement, then, as you start to resolve it, you get less excited. Look how Munch has left some areas unpainted – you can actually see the canvas. It's like he is saying, ‘This is what it's like to paint a picture.' Maybe he was looking at artists like Van Gogh. Art's just a conversation, right? A way of seeing and thinking.