Vintriga akrar 1935

Sven Olof Alfred Rosen made "Vintriga akrar" using a monochrome palette in 1935. I can almost feel Rosen's hand moving across the plate, pressing with varying degrees of pressure to create those thick, dark lines that define the winter fields. There's a real weight to them, a sense of the land being heavy with frost and the promise of spring, you know? I wonder what Rosen was thinking when he etched this scene. Was he contemplating the cyclical nature of the seasons, the quiet solitude of the landscape? I look at the figures in the distance. They are so small, rendered in a way that suggests the vastness of nature in contrast to human experience. It reminds me a little of Munch, actually. These artists are always in conversation with one another, riffing off each other’s ideas, pushing the boundaries of what's possible. They want us to see and feel the world in new ways, to embrace the beauty and the mystery of it all.