Dialogue with the Chimera 1987

Vasile Kazar created "Dialogue with the Chimera" with washes of color and nervous, searching lines. I can just picture him working on this, building up the forms tentatively, letting figures emerge from the mist. There’s this great tension between control and accident, like he’s improvising a conversation on paper. See how the colors bleed and run, creating these ghostly shapes? I wonder if he was thinking about the chimera as a symbol of the unconscious, or maybe just enjoying the process of letting his imagination run wild. That dark, jagged line cutting across the bottom feels particularly charged, like a jolt of energy grounding the whole composition. Kazar's definitely in conversation with painters like Ensor or Nolde, artists who embraced the weird and unsettling. It's a reminder that painting isn't just about representation—it's about exploring the depths of human experience.