Return from the Hunt 1935 - 1944

Arnold Peter Weisz-Kubínčan made this drawing, Return from the Hunt, with coloured pencils, using short, broken marks which feel so free and improvisational. You can really feel the process of making. The image is full of muted tones, a hazy pink, grey and gold, applied in layers that seem to blend into the blue ground. The surface is alive with these visible marks, as if the artist was thinking through colour. See that loose grid of white lines on the right side of the drawing? It's as if they are a structure or cage, yet, the rest of the image seems to spill out beyond it. This tension between control and freedom is really important. Kubínčan’s experimental approach to colour and form remind me a lot of the work of Paul Klee. Like Klee, Kubínčan wasn't afraid to let his imagination run wild. The beauty of art lies in its ambiguity, inviting us to see and feel in new ways.