Singing Girls 1936

Josef Capek made this painting, Singing Girls, with oils on canvas, and it's a real playground of color and form. The paint is applied with such playful freedom, almost like he's building the image out of pure feeling. Look at how the blues and yellows wrestle for space, creating this push-and-pull effect that's so engaging. The surface has this beautiful texture, where you can see the tracks of the brush, each stroke loaded with intention. And those singing girls! They're so simply rendered, but they carry such a weight of emotion, like figures in a dream. The way Capek balances abstraction with these recognizable forms reminds me a bit of early Kandinsky. Ultimately, this piece feels like a celebration of painting itself – a reminder that art is as much about the process as it is about the final image.