Presentiment 1971

This is Metka Krasovec’s ‘Presentiment,’ and I see she’s playing with color and form to evoke a mood, a feeling of something about to happen. It’s like she’s saying, “Here are the colors, here are the shapes, now you feel the feeling." There's this striking contrast between the flat planes of color - the blue water, the yellow sky - and the more agitated, scribbled red shapes that could be flowers, or birds, or something else entirely. The red marks are layered, built up with repeated strokes, and the way they hover above the landscape makes me think of dreams, or maybe a premonition. Look at the way the shadow of the figure in the water stretches out and merges with the shadows of the red forms, there is a distinct quality to this shadow, and it seems to carry something from those forms. I’m reminded of other artists like, say, Joan Mitchell, who also used color and gesture to create these swirling, emotional landscapes. Art’s like this ongoing conversation, where we’re all riffing on each other's ideas, trying to capture something elusive, something that words just can’t quite reach.