Komposition 1931

Leo Leuppi made this painting called "Komposition" with oil on canvas, and the colours are like deep, earthy browns with splashes of bold red, blue and yellow. I can almost see Leuppi wrestling with the shapes here, trying to make them fit, to make them sing. It's like he's building a puzzle, but the pieces keep changing shape. What was he thinking, I wonder, as he layered those colours, thick in some places, thin in others? Maybe he was thinking about how a guitar makes sound, about the relationship between objects in space? The way that red slice jabs across the middle, it feels like a burst of energy cutting through the calm. It reminds me a bit of Braque or Picasso, or other folks who were rearranging reality back then. Artists are always having this conversation across time, you know, riffing off each other's ideas, and it's all about embracing the mess, the uncertainty, the multiple ways of seeing.