Mykene 1954

Willi Baumeister made Mykene, a color screenprint, at some point in the mid-twentieth century. Look at how the straight lines and geometric shapes feel both ancient and modern. It makes me think of a cave painting done by a computer. The texture here is pretty interesting. The colors, sort of muted pinks and grays, give it a raw, earthy feel. It's like the image is emerging from the stone itself. Notice how the lines aren't perfectly clean; there's a slight wobble to them, like they were drawn by hand. And the way the shapes are layered, it's not quite flat, not quite dimensional. It’s the same approach I take in my paintings, it's about the process of building up layers, letting the history of the marks show through. Baumeister reminds me of Paul Klee, both playing with abstraction and a kind of childlike wonder. Art's not about having all the answers, right? It's about keeping the conversation going, exploring new ways of seeing.