Untitled 1977

Here's an untitled landscape by Manoucher Yektai, and you can almost see the painting emerging, bit by bit, through trial, error, and intuition. I imagine Yektai standing before the canvas, wrestling with the paint, coaxing it into shapes and forms. See how thick it is? It's like he's sculpting with color! This physicality shapes our experience, adding emotional and intellectual weight. Look at that bold stroke of brown creating a pathway. It communicates intention and meaning. Yektai’s got this ongoing conversation with painters like Guston and de Kooning. These artists keep the dialogue alive, inspiring our own creativity. Painting becomes this embodied form of expression, embracing ambiguity and uncertainty. There are multiple ways of looking and feeling, not one fixed meaning!