In the Pasture 1940 - 1944

Arnold Peter Weisz-Kubínčan made this painting, In the Pasture, with oil paint, in strokes of green, yellow, red, white, and dark blue, and the artist's hand seems guided by intuition. The surface has texture, and it almost seems to be alive. I imagine him looking at a landscape, and how that translates into this surface. What was he thinking about when he put down that smudge of white for a cloud, or tried to capture a figure, like the memory of a person? Did he decide to be more schematic than figurative? It’s like the painting is a site for him to ask: What am I seeing, and what does it mean? His use of color creates a push and pull, where shapes and colors define the space. There’s something childlike and raw, like folk art, or outsider art. But I’m also reminded of work by artists like Marsden Hartley or Milton Avery, who were looking at folk art too, maybe seeing something authentic and true. It’s a conversation between painters, about how to see and feel the world.