Fisherman 1935 - 1944

Arnold Peter Weisz-Kubínčan made this watercolor, called Fisherman, with a kind of restless, searching energy. It’s all about process, that feeling of things being in motion. Look at how the pigment pools and bleeds, the quick, transparent washes building up into these shimmering layers. The paint is so thin, so fluid, it’s like light itself, bouncing off the surface of the paper. There’s this push-pull between representation and abstraction, where the scene almost dissolves into these dynamic color relationships. Take those black lines suggesting branches or maybe birds. They don’t quite resolve, but they add a beautiful, rhythmic complexity. It puts me in mind of someone like Emil Nolde, with that similar interest in vivid color and loose, gestural mark-making. What is so fascinating about painting is that it keeps on going, endlessly reinterpreting what it can be.