Compositie met horizontale en diagonale arceringen 1958

This is a print by Nono Reinhold, called Compositie met horizontale en diagonale arceringen. It looks like a landscape emerging from a haze of lines, like seeing the world through a screen. The process of layering all these marks must have been so meditative. I imagine Reinhold building up the image bit by bit, each line responding to the last, a kind of conversation happening on the printing plate. See how the horizontal lines create a sense of distance, while the diagonals add a feeling of depth and maybe even instability? It reminds me of Agnes Martin's grids, but with a wilder, more chaotic energy. You get the feeling that Reinhold is playing with the language of abstraction to evoke something real, something felt. Artists are always talking to each other, across time and space, inspiring each other to see the world in new ways. This piece invites us to embrace ambiguity, to find beauty in the unexpected, and to trust our own messy, intuitive responses.