Personnages 1949

Aurel Cojan made "Personnages" with a pencil, and you can see the energy of that movement in the image. It feels like he wasn't trying to capture exactly what he saw, but something closer to the feeling of seeing. I can almost feel the graphite scratching on the paper, a dance of marks that build up these figures, or maybe ghosts. The lines are so light and quick, like he’s trying to catch a fleeting thought, a memory of people. Look at how some lines overlap and intersect, creating a sense of depth and movement. It’s like Cojan is inviting us to see the world as a series of possibilities rather than fixed forms. There's a kind of vulnerability to the marks, an acceptance of imperfection, which I find really compelling. It reminds me of the work of Cy Twombly, where the act of drawing becomes a way of thinking through the world. Artists like Cojan remind us that art isn't about answers, it's about the questions we ask along the way.