Chairs and Shadows 1950

Glen Alps made this print, Chairs and Shadows, using woodcut and engraving. It's a wild mix of shapes and lines, like someone took a room full of furniture and tossed it in the air! Look at how the colors don't quite sit still. The purple kind of hums underneath, pushing the other colors forward. It's like a stage set but the play hasn't started yet. There's a green shape at the bottom, like a big, lumpy chair, all angles and curves. Notice the lines that squiggle across it, like neon lights. They remind me of Cy Twombly's scribbles, playful but also kind of profound. The whole thing feels like an experiment, a way of seeing how far you can push a picture before it falls apart. It's a reminder that art is a conversation, not a lecture, and that sometimes the best answers come from asking more questions.