Nuremberg. Advocates. 1945

Kukryniksy's drawing, Nuremberg. Advocates., is a wild tangle of thin lines and scratchy marks. It's as if the artist attacked the surface of the paper with a pen, building up a mesh of lines to create these grotesque characters. You can see the ghost of Daumier in this work. He probably wasn't thinking of Daumier, but all artists are looking at art history. Aren't they? It’s a nervous, frenetic energy; a controlled chaos that makes the drawing so compelling. I imagine the artist hovering over the page, darting and diving to capture a likeness. Here, the artist has used dry media to capture the likenesses. They are so spontaneous, quick, and direct. It’s like capturing a fleeting thought, an almost unconscious gesture. It speaks to how drawing can be a form of embodied expression, embracing ambiguity and uncertainty.