Jong meisje met bloemen voor een venster 

Maurice Denis created this print, ‘Young Girl with Flowers Before a Window’, using lithography. The composition is immediately striking for its contrasting elements: a rough, dark frame encloses a soft, pastel scene, creating a window into another world. Denis, a key figure in the Nabis movement, emphasized the symbolic and spiritual. Here, the girl with flowers is less a portrait and more a symbol. The artist used flattened perspective and simplified forms, focusing on the interplay between line and colour to evoke a dream-like atmosphere. The window motif, traditionally a symbol of perspective and realism, is here destabilized. Denis rejects pure representation to explore inner emotional states and subjective experience. Ultimately, the lithographic process, with its textured and slightly blurred effect, contributes to a sense of ethereal beauty. The visible materiality invites us to contemplate the artwork not just as an image, but as an object in itself, imbued with layers of meaning and artistic intention.