Aangemeerde boot, mogelijk een schuit 1886 - 1923

George Hendrik Breitner made this drawing of an anchored boat, possibly a barge, with a pencil on paper. It is pure line work, a skeletal structure made up of many quick, light pencil marks. I imagine Breitner standing there, quickly capturing the scene, trying to get it down before the light changed, or the boat drifted away. These lines aren’t precious, they are urgent, and immediate, which makes me think of other artists, like Van Gogh, who captured the world around them with such intensity. You can see the pentimento, where the artist has drawn over lines to adjust the form of the boat. I love the scratchy, raw quality of the drawing. You can feel the artist thinking, seeing, and feeling. It’s a reminder that art isn’t about perfection, it’s about process, and about how we see the world. It's also a conversation. Artists learn from each other, inspiring new ways of seeing and being, and expressing what it means to be alive.