Lifeline 2016

Nemanja Vučković made "Lifeline," which is about 60 by 70 cm, and looks like it’s made with acrylic or oil paint. It has this awesome mix of green, red, white, and black, all swirled and splattered together. You can almost feel the energy of the artist as he made it. Imagine Vučković standing there, maybe with some music on, just letting loose with these colors. The green feels like nature, maybe a forest, and then BAM! Red splatters that could be emotions bursting out. The white lines are like streaks of light, holding it all together. I love how the black almost grounds the whole thing, like the earth under our feet. It's like he’s building up layers of feeling and experience. It reminds me of some of Joan Mitchell’s landscapes, where the colors are so intense they feel like a memory. Artists are always riffing off each other, and paintings like this show that conversation across time, that shared energy of trying to make sense of the world through color and gesture.