Return from the Hunt 1935 - 1944

Arnold Peter Weisz-Kubínčan made this drawing, Return from the Hunt, on paper with pastel. You can almost feel the pastel dust! Look at the way the marks build up, layer upon layer, like a hazy memory trying to come into focus. I imagine Weisz-Kubínčan standing there, charcoal in hand, squinting at the scene before him. It's like he's wrestling with the image, pulling it out of the shadows, one line at a time. See that nervous energy in the marks? That's the artist thinking, feeling, trying to capture something fleeting. There’s something about the surface that feels unresolved, like a question mark hanging in the air. Weisz-Kubínčan is in conversation with other artists like him, those searching for new ways to express the world around them. And here we are now, still looking, still wondering. It's a beautiful, messy, ongoing conversation, this thing we call art.