Decoratief ontwerp 1874 - 1945

Here's a Decorative Design, made with pencil on paper by Carel Adolph Lion Cachet. It’s a delicate and tentative dance between line and form. The pencil strokes are light, searching, as if the artist is feeling their way through the image, letting it emerge gradually. You can almost see him working and reworking the lines, adjusting the balance and composition. There’s an underlying structure of symmetry, with vertical lines anchoring the composition and dividing it into sections. But within that structure, there's asymmetry too, with each half of the design subtly different from the other. The artist probably played with these variations as he developed the design, exploring the tension between order and chaos. Cachet probably looked to the decorative arts for inspiration and yet, it looks so much like automatic drawing! I can see the spirit of artists like Hilma af Klint in this too. It's like artists are having a conversation with each other across time, inspiring each other’s creative work.