Untitled 1952

This untitled print was made by Ernst Wilhelm Nay, and you can see it is full of energetic marks in blue, black, and chartreuse. I can imagine him working on this, trying out different ideas, maybe starting with the blue areas and then responding to that with the black lines. It's like a conversation, a call and response between colors and shapes. There's this zigzag line that cuts across the surface, almost like an electric current, and it feels really dynamic. I wonder what he was thinking about when he made it? Was he trying to capture a feeling or a sensation? It reminds me a little bit of Joan Miró, that playful sense of line and color. Artists are always in conversation with each other, riffing on each other's ideas, pushing the boundaries of what painting can be. And what painting *can* be is this kind of embodied expression which embraces ambiguity. There is so much room to move, change your mind, and leave the work open to multiple readings.