Vincent Smarkusz

Undiscovered American Genius in Modern Art

Masada

Graphite and Ink on Paper
10 x 13 inches
25.4 x 33 cm
Time: 
1960
In these 42 primitively abstract, but symbolically mythomorphic images, Smarkusz completed the last series of what we have been calling Fusionism.  By the end of 1961, he had fully transitioned to a highly illustrative style we describe as Mythic-realism.