To kvinder slås om en mand 1906

Oluf Hartmann made this tiny etching called 'Two Women Fight Over a Man' sometime before 1910. It's like a dark dream, a psychological wrestling match. Imagine Hartmann working on this small metal plate. It’s a dark scene, and the lines are dug deep into the metal, full of shadow and emotion. There is a struggle going on; you can see the woman on the right reaching out, but their bodies are fused together like they are both the same person. What was Hartmann thinking, making this? Was he interested in the messy emotions that can erupt between people? There is nothing clean about this, it is all raw feeling rendered in tones of gray. Artists, we're always in conversation with each other across time, grabbing ideas, throwing them back out, and adding our own spin. Every gesture, every mark is a way of feeling our way through the world.