Trio met drum before 1952

Johan van Hell pulled off "Trio met drum" with some kind of inky material, maybe lithography, judging by the pulpy texture of the suits and instruments. I bet Johan had a whole internal world of characters and moods that he was trying to work out. I mean, look at the mouth on the face of that drum! It’s like, he’s trying to capture the feeling of music, not just depict the players. Johan is trying to get at how it feels to make art, a kind of existential, what-is-it-all-about, why-bother kind of feeling. The dots are cool, too. They remind me of Seurat. I like to think about artists having these conversations through time. He must have thought a lot about other artists' feelings about art, and how to turn them into an image. I love it!