Buskin 1959

Morris Louis made this painting, called Buskin, using acrylic on canvas. Look at how he's stained the canvas, letting the paint soak right in. It's like the colors are breathing, emerging from the weave of the material itself. The texture is so smooth, almost like a watercolor, but on a grand scale. See how the vertical bands of color bleed into each other, creating these subtle, luminous gradients? The paint isn't sitting on the surface; it's part of it. It feels like he's not just applying color but revealing it. I think of Helen Frankenthaler when I look at this, another painter who understood the power of letting paint be itself. Art is just the conversation between artists that never ends, you know?