Untitled 1946

Norman Lewis made this untitled drawing on paper, and wow, what a flurry of lines. They don't sit still, do they? It's like a party or a crowded street scene, everyone overlapping and bumping into each other. You can almost feel Lewis's hand moving quickly, trying to capture the energy of the crowd. I bet he was thinking about movement and rhythm, about how to create a sense of chaos and excitement with just a few simple lines. Imagine the pen gliding across the page, each stroke building on the last, a kind of dance. This reminds me of other artists, like Guston, who used simple marks to create complex and emotional images, a kind of conversation between different approaches, different ways of seeing the world. And isn't that what art is all about?