Schwarze Kette Grün zu Rot 1966

Ernst Wilhelm Nay made this painting, Schwarze Kette Grün zu Rot, using oil on canvas, but when? Anyway, the shapes are kind of floating, and there's this cool black chain doing its thing against these areas of red, yellow, and blue. It's like Nay’s having a conversation with color itself, seeing what happens when these big characters get together on canvas. Check out how the blue curves – it’s so fluid, like watching someone do yoga with paint. You can almost feel the brush dancing around. And the texture is smooth, but you can see the slight drag of the brush. It feels very physical, immediate. Look at that dash of green popping out from the red, it’s like a little spark of life thrown in. Nay seems to have a thing for these shapes, they show up in a lot of his work. It’s like he's exploring the same questions about space and color, trying to find different answers each time. Thinking of other artists, maybe Kandinsky would dig this, you know? That embrace of the non-objective, the pure joy of letting color and form speak for themselves.