The artwork, titled “Zoo Sketch,” is a creation of the artist Mark Tobey, belonging to the Expressionism art movement and classified under the genre of sketch and study.
The artwork exhibits a series of rapid, expressive sketches, suggestive of the artist’s impulsive and spontaneous creative process. The subjects, which appear to include a fox or wolf, a stylized human face, and another animal abstracted to its most basic lines, are rendered with minimalistic, fluid lines, infusing the composition with a sense of movement and immediacy. The use of a monochromatic color palette and sparse details fosters an atmosphere of fleeting observation, as though capturing a momentary glimpse of each subject. This approach is emblematic of the Expressionism movement, which emphasizes the portrayal of emotional experience rather than physical reality.
