Auto voor een stationsgebouw 1890 - 1946

Cornelis Vreedenburgh made this drawing of a car outside a train station with pencil on paper. Look at these marks, how free and breezy they are! I imagine Vreedenburgh quickly sketching outside. He probably wanted to capture the scene, to record a feeling, a sense of the everyday, without getting bogged down in detail. It's like he's saying, “Here’s a car, here’s a station, bam, done!”. That one long diagonal line going right through the center creates a cool tension with the softer, sketchier lines around it. It really brings the whole composition together, don’t you think? I often wonder what artists are thinking about when they make these kinds of rapid sketches. Maybe he wanted to show the hustle and bustle of modern life, or maybe he just liked the shape of the car. Artists are always riffing off of each other, playing with ideas across time. I wonder if Vreedenburgh knew he was participating in a big conversation about how to see and depict the world.