Timber transport 1940

Arnold Peter Weisz-Kubínčan made this watercolor called 'Timber Transport,' and it's just so juicy. It's got these broad, diagonal strokes in blues and grays which create a landscape, maybe mountains, and a sense of the cold. I imagine Weisz-Kubínčan outside, quickly capturing a scene, maybe many scenes one after the other. He must have felt the urgency to portray the world, using the fluidity of watercolour to mirror the fleeting moments. The blues mixed with browns evoke the quietness of the landscape and the heaviness of the labour. The way he suggests the forms with such simple marks is fascinating. It reminds me of other painters who work in series, like Monet with his haystacks or Cézanne with his mountains. There’s a kind of obsession with capturing the same scene, but always new. It's like they’re all in a conversation, across time, about how we see and feel the world.