Kalenderschild van de kalender voor 1915 van Kunstnijverheidsschool Quellinus 1914

This calendar for 1915 was made by Antoon Lüske, presumably at the Kunstnijverheidsschool Quellinus. It's mostly tans and blues, with a kind of art nouveau styling. I’m looking at these curving, decorative elements and thinking about the act of drawing, how each swirl and line must have been so deliberate, almost meditative. I imagine Lüske, maybe a student at the time, carefully laying down each mark, trying to balance precision with fluidity. What's so cool is the way the zodiac symbols float around the year "1915," like celestial bodies in their orbits! There is a real sense of play in this work, like he’s riffing on those decorative traditions but making them fresh, kind of like what Matisse did with his cut-outs, finding new possibilities within established forms. You know, we artists are always in conversation with each other, across time, picking up on each other’s ideas. This piece feels like part of that ongoing dialogue, a reminder that art is never created in a vacuum. It’s an embodied expression, embracing ambiguity, and sparking endless interpretations.