Auflösung c. 1928

Karl Wiener made this watercolor painting, Auflösung, sometime between 1901 and 1949, and just look at those juicy colors! It's like witnessing a world come into being right before your eyes. I can imagine him, totally absorbed, letting the brush dance across the paper, dripping and swirling. There’s the push and pull of intention and accident, which is so key to painting. See how he lays down those looping greens and blues, almost like a tangled vortex? Then, BAM! A burst of yellow and red explodes from the center, cutting through the noise. I wonder if Wiener was channeling Kandinsky or maybe even some earlier Romantic painters, finding his own way to express the inexpressible. Painting is like that, a conversation across time, where each artist adds their voice to the mix, figuring things out together, one brushstroke at a time. It's not about answers, but about keeping the questions alive, you know?