Pilvet 1900-luvun alusta 1910 - 1912

Eero Järnefelt made this pastel drawing of clouds in the early 1900s. The blues and violets sort of bleed together, smudging across the paper, like a storm front rolling in. I can imagine Järnefelt outside, squinting at the sky, rapidly layering colours to capture the fleeting light and atmosphere. He's trying to pin down something ephemeral, something that’s always changing. Look at how he’s used vertical strokes of blue to suggest rain, or maybe just the density of the cloud. The whole thing feels so light, so transient, but also solid somehow. Artists are always wrestling with this tension, trying to make something that feels alive and in motion, even though it’s just sitting there on a wall. We learn from each other, riffing on what others have done, trying to find our own way of expressing the world as we see it.