Smrekovica 1940

Arnold Peter Weisz-Kubínčan made this drawing, Smrekovica, in 1940 using ink. It’s all about the flow of that dark wash he’s using, creating these shapes that suggest figures scrambling on a hillside. There’s a real urgency to the marks, a sense of the artist capturing a fleeting moment, like a memory surfacing. I love how the ink pools in certain areas, creating darker, more defined shapes. Take a look at the figure on the left; the way the ink bleeds around the edges of his form makes him almost dissolve into the landscape. You can almost feel the texture of the paper, the way it absorbs the ink, becoming part of the image itself. It reminds me a bit of Goya's darker, more brooding works, the way he used aquatint to create these shadowy, unsettling scenes. Ultimately, this piece feels like an exploration of movement and form, an attempt to capture the raw energy of a moment in time. It’s less about the finished product and more about the process itself, the act of translating a vision onto paper.