This vibrant painting features a dreamlike, surreal composition dominated by shades of blue and gold. The central figures are two intertwined nude female forms, rendered in a stylized, expressive manner. The overall visual effect is dynamic, with angular, fragmented shapes and textures creating a sense of movement and energy. The artist has employed bold, gestural brushstrokes and a vivid color palette to convey a sense of emotional intensity and mysticism. While the precise subject matter may be open to interpretation, the work appears to explore themes of intimacy, transcendence, and the subconscious, reflecting the artist's distinctive modernist approach and vision. ...
Michael Horsky’s paintings seem crystallized from some sort of chromatic primeval slime. Constellations of motifs that leave everything obvious behind them—art history/role models/the good idea—appear on the canvas, though not before countless other images have been shaken off, discarded. Horsky draws from deeply hidden inner networks of knowledge and feeling, as well as the inherent laws that govern them. The outer, representational pictorial structure is merely a surface to project upon, a plaything, or an indicator for the abstract processes at work behind it. Forms are liberated from the gravity of logic, not deformed; colors unfurl the wildly beguiling power of their essence; narratives shatter against the paradox of their individual parts, only to further incite intuition. Horsky's paintings are oddly captivating equivalents for a world—our world— that, despite its real, barely comprehensible madness, mysteriously manages to function and, against all reason, is capable of creating amazing beauty (Sonja Menches). ...
