Blå og lyserød ellipse med firkanter på brun og blå baggrund 1918

Vilhelm Lundstrom made this colour print - Blå og lyserød ellipse med firkanter på brun og blå baggrund – at some point in his career. It's a playful arrangement of forms and colours, where process feels like the point. I love how the pink ellipse hovers above a jumble of rectangles, all offset and misaligned. It's like looking at a wonky city skyline through rose-tinted glasses. The textures are great; you can see the grain of the woodblock, which feels immediate and handmade. Look at the overlapping inks in the rectangles - pink and blue merging to create a sense of depth and movement. It feels very intuitive, like he was working it out as he went along, which resonates with me. Lundstrom seems to be in conversation with the Cubists, especially Juan Gris, but the playfulness and pastel colour palette are all his own. The joy of printmaking is its unpredictable nature and embracing those happy accidents.