Fairy Tale Motif 1935 - 1944

Arnold Peter Weisz-Kubínčan made this watercolour, Fairy Tale Motif, with a delicate touch. Look at the way the paint seems to float on the paper, like a dream half-remembered. The colours are so soft and simple, like a child’s drawing, but there’s also something eerie about it, a feeling of unease. Check out the figure; she’s got this ghostly pallor, but then there’s that spiral on her chest, painted in blues, like a window into her soul or something. It's the focal point for sure. The landscape around her is all rolling hills and dreamy clouds. There’s this tension between the flatness of the paint and the depth it creates – a reminder that art is always a kind of illusion, a trick of the hand. You can see echoes of artists like Odilon Redon, with their strange, symbolic imagery. But Weisz-Kubínčan brings his own raw, almost childlike sensibility to it. It’s not just a picture; it’s a whole world, filled with mystery.