Menselijke figuren, zwarte rechthoek 1969

Rein Dool made this print, *Menselijke figuren, zwarte rechthoek*, using some kind of ink on paper. Look at those figures, floating like little clouds, each with its own expression. I imagine Dool hunched over a table, his pen dancing across the page, quickly capturing the essence of each form with minimal strokes. You can feel his hand moving, pushing and pulling, feeling the paper beneath. The rectangle anchors everything, while those figures hover freely. They seem light, released, dreamlike. Are they diving into the abyss? Or are they tiny spectators? It's hard to tell what he was thinking, but I feel a kind of lightness, a playful exploration of form and space. It reminds me a bit of Klee or maybe Miró, with its playful abstraction and calligraphic lines. Artists, we’re all in this ongoing conversation, pulling ideas from each other, creating something new. Each mark, each line, is a conversation.