Man and Dog (Figures in Conflict)

Mediums: watercolour, gouache, paper.
Location: Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago (the USA).

The painting, which was discovered in America among four others, has different names. The initial one, “Man and Dog”, helps to see the figurative component – an animal and a part of a human figure. In the second title, a reflection of time can be assumed: when the picture was created, the armed world conflict was in full swing. However, the latter interpretation is supported neither by the rather optimistic colour solutions chosen by the artist nor by the aggressiveness of the lines and forms less visible than in other paintings. We can note with greater certainty that the author used the language of abstraction to convey industrial dynamism, linking it with the realities of the modern city.