"Parti ved Emdrup" 1936

This is "Parti ved Emdrup" by Claus Johansen, it's a pencil drawing. You can see how the artist tentatively built up an image of a place, stroke by stroke. I can really imagine being the artist, standing in a field in Emdrup with a sketchbook and pencil, trying to capture the essence of the landscape in front of them. The marks are quick and gestural, almost like shorthand for the trees, the hills, and the sky. It’s as if the artist is feeling their way through the scene, letting the pencil lead them. There's a real freshness to the drawing, a sense of immediacy. Like a jazz musician improvising, Johansen is riffing on the landscape, creating a visual poem out of lines and tones. And in that process, Johansen is adding to the conversation between artists across time.