Engel auf rotem Fond 1925

Adolf Hölzel made this vibrant drawing, *Angel on Red Background*, with colored chalks or crayons, and you can just see the energy in each stroke, the hatching. It's like he was figuring it out as he went along! I can imagine Hölzel, with the stick of red in his hand, bearing down on the paper, making that intense ground. It is a really gutsy red, the kind that comes out of you with some force, some feeling. Then the cool blues and greens come on top. The blue angel itself is an awkward shape; it's like it's meant to be an angel but then, also, not. You know? Artists have always been pinching ideas from each other, so it's interesting to think of Hölzel, back then, having a conversation with painters now. What would he make of our moment? All these marks that form the artwork are sort of never-ending, but at one point they stop, don't they.