Sketch of a Horse in a Ring 1940 - 1944

Arnold Peter Weisz-Kubínčan made this artwork with pastels on paper. Look at this horse floating in a gray space; a rider sits astride, though both are merely suggested. I can imagine Weisz-Kubínčan, charcoal in hand, circling the figures, almost as if he is physically enacting the horse in a ring. Maybe he was thinking about the idea of constraint, drawing and redrawing the lines of the ring, defining and redefining the form. The pastel is applied so softly, it creates a hazy atmosphere around the horse and rider, lending the piece a dreamlike quality. The red lines above the horse, they could be anything: sunlight, or bars, who knows? But that little touch of red, like a spark, is very important in this otherwise muted and atmospheric composition. It’s just amazing how another artist, somewhere else, maybe another time, can show you a whole new way to think about a horse, a ring, a drawing, a feeling.