Hond en geit bij een staldeur c. 1904 - 1906

Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof created this drawing, "Hond en geit bij een staldeur," with a pencil on paper. The sketch presents a scene with a goat peering out from the top half of a stable door as a dog looks up at it. Dijsselhof's reliance on line is critical here. Note the composition, where the architecture is constructed using straight lines while the animals are represented by curved lines. This contrast creates a semiotic code that separates the constructed from the organic. The artist destabilizes traditional representations by employing these basic elements. The texture of the sketch, created by the pencil strokes, introduces a sense of immediacy, as if capturing a fleeting encounter. The structural arrangement and the use of line over shade and color creates a dynamic interplay between form and content, reflecting a concern with essential forms and structures.