The languor of Oedipus 1989

Oleg Holosiy made this painting "The languor of Oedipus" with expressive brushstrokes and a sombre palette, maybe in the 1980s. The painting's divided into two panels. On the left, we see a figure gazing wistfully, while the right panel shows another figure covering their eyes, a red mark above their heart. The paint looks pretty thin here. I imagine Holosiy standing back, squinting, layering these ghostly figures with an almost frenetic energy. You wonder, what's he thinking? The languor, the blindness... How do you capture that on canvas? The blue tendrils floating around remind me of a kind of dark fairytale, a bit like Goya. I wonder if Holosiy was looking at him? Painting has that unique ability to speak across time. I mean, we all talk to each other as artists, right? His work, with its raw emotion, reminds us that painting is, at its core, about feeling. And the more ambiguity, the more we can find ourselves in the work.