Figure Evolving into Magical Forms 1946

Lorser Feitelson made this drawing, Figure Evolving into Magical Forms, with ink on paper. The figures start out looking human-ish but end up as something else entirely, like geometry taking over. I’m drawn to the way the lines thicken and thin. Look at how the hatching gives weight and volume, but also flattens the image. There’s a push and pull between dimensions, a kind of visual stutter. I love the contrast of the blank paper showing through. It’s almost like the figures are being erased or are in the process of disappearing. The shapes are stark, but also playful, like something Joan Miró might have doodled. Feitelson, like Miró, invites us to see the world not as it is, but as it could be – fluid, changing, and full of endless possibilities. Art doesn't have to make sense, it just has to make you feel something.