Daami portree 1923 - 1924

Konrad Mägi made this portrait of a young woman with oil on canvas, we don't know exactly when. Look at the brushstrokes, those little dabs of color coming together to form a face, a scarf. I can almost feel Mägi standing there, mixing his paints, trying to capture the light on her skin. Did he know her? Was she a friend, a lover? Or just someone he saw on the street and felt compelled to paint? There's something so intimate about portraiture, isn't there? It's like the artist is trying to capture not just the person's likeness, but their soul. And the way Mägi uses those colors, those blues and reds and greens, it's like he's trying to capture something beyond the surface, something deeper, more profound. I feel that as artists, we're all just trying to have a conversation with each other, across time and space.