Dark Figures 1961

Rico Lebrun made "Dark Figures" with ink, or maybe charcoal. It's all blacks, whites, and grays. I imagine Lebrun was a tortured soul, someone who saw the darkness in humanity and wasn't afraid to show it. The figures seem to emerge from the shadows, their forms distorted and fragmented. They are these primal beings, raw and exposed. It feels like Lebrun is wrestling with something profound, maybe even something unnamable. Take the way the marks drag across the surface, creating a sense of depth and movement. It’s like he’s digging into the paper, trying to excavate some buried truth. It makes me think of Goya. It’s like an artist is trying to have a conversation across time, to reach out and say, "I understand, I've been there too." And that’s what makes art so powerful, right? The way it connects us to each other.