L’Étreinte 1969

Here's a painting by Picasso called "L'Étreinte" that just sings with bold strokes of yellow, green, and blue. Imagine him there, wrestling with the canvas, each color a feeling, a thought, a quick jab of the brush. I get the sense he was trying to nail something down, not just what he saw, but what it felt like to be alive, entwined, maybe even a little off-kilter. It's not about perfect shapes; it’s about the raw energy. The yellow slash of a body against the cool blue—it's like a shout, a declaration. And those eyes! Picasso's always got those crazy eyes that seem to look right through you. You can see echoes of his earlier cubist experiments and the emotional punch of the expressionists. We're all just remixing and sampling each other, trying to find our own voice in the chaos. And that, my friends, is the messy, beautiful conversation of painting.