Sun Flames 1937

Hans Hinterreiter made "Sun Flames" sometime between 1902 and 1989 using geometrical forms and a warm colour palette. Imagine the artist experimenting with shapes, placing them side by side, rotating them just so – the back and forth that's crucial to creativity. "Sun Flames" is like a mathematical equation turned into pure feeling. Those flames are almost like code, aren't they? I wonder what it might have been like to be Hinterreiter, sitting with these shapes, trying to find the right combination to make something that glows from within? This piece reminds me that artists are always playing with puzzles, trying to make sense of the world one shape, one brushstroke, one color at a time. It's like a conversation across time, a bunch of us talking through paint, sharing our visions and our ways of seeing.