Two Women 1931

This is a painting by Mikuláš Galanda called "Two Women." Look at the way he's built up those layers of muted colors, like a memory surfacing, shifting between abstraction and figuration. I can almost feel Galanda in the studio, wrestling with the forms, trying to capture something elusive. The white shape that dissects the painting feels like an unresolved thought. It reminds me a bit of Léger. What’s that shape? Is it an arm? Or maybe a bird in flight? The texture is so smooth, almost like skin. And the way the figures emerge from the background, it's like they're caught between worlds. You get the feeling that this is a painter who’s really thinking about the act of seeing. It’s about the tension between what we know and what we perceive. Painting is a conversation that stretches across time and space. We keep learning from each other.