Study of Riders 1930s

Cyprián Majerník made this drawing of riders with pencil on paper. Look at the tentative, searching lines, the way he layers and repeats them! You can almost feel his hand moving, trying to capture the dynamic energy of these figures on horseback. I wonder what Majerník was thinking as he drew? Was he interested in the riders themselves, or was it the movement, the forms, and the rhythms he was trying to understand? See how the horses are not drawn so much as felt? They emerge from a jumble of lines, a kind of shorthand for the animal, and what it's like to be alive. That scribbled line there, suggesting maybe a bit of landscape, reminds me of Cy Twombly, or even Giacometti, the way they both used the bare minimum to suggest maximum feeling. Artists are always in conversation, aren't they, across time and place, riffing on each other’s ideas and pushing painting forward?