Max Pechsteins

Max Pechsteins painting called “Zwiesprache” (Two Voices) painted in 1920 is of two nude females conversing in a landscape. Its condition is unusually fine, with strong boldly printed colors. The sheet has only some soft creasing in the margins. The subject matter is most probably sexuality and it incorporates the angular forms of Oceanic and African art. The two nudes have a brownish-yellow color with white black outlines. The background of the two nudes are diagonal …

…to be about getting beyond the limitation of words, paints, notes, into the direct experience of life. That paints -- as Terry Taylor once said -- "the common things with mystery". When a poet writes about nature he's trying to communicate what he/she ”feels” when he does not know what color the sky was, what color the leaves were, what is smell like, etc. They are trying to communicate something beyond that. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**