This vibrant contemporary artwork features a bold, colorful composition. The painting prominently displays a woven basket-like structure in earthy tones, surrounded by a lush, fiery floral landscape. The figures of two individuals, rendered with expressive faces, stand within the basket-like form, conveying a sense of enclosure or containment. The artist has employed a vivid, almost surreal palette, using striking contrasts of orange, purple, and yellow to create an immersive, dreamlike atmosphere. The artwork's symbolism and intention seem to explore themes of human experience, isolation, and the natural world, though the specific context or message remains open to interpretation. ...
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). ...
