Straat langs een kromme gracht 1890 - 1946

This drawing of a street along a curved canal was made by Cornelis Vreedenburgh with pencil on paper. You can almost feel the artist’s hand moving swiftly across the page. Look at those lines; they are alive. See how they build up, layer upon layer? I wonder if the artist was trying to capture the essence of a place more than a precise image. What do you think he was thinking about while making this artwork? I'd like to imagine Vreedenburgh walking along the canal and pulling out his sketchbook, quickly capturing what he saw. There’s a sense of freedom in the sketch. It reminds me that art is as much about feeling as it is about seeing. Artists build on each other's work, and I see something of that here. We are all in conversation, you know? Each mark connects us to the past and points us toward the future.