Bomen en een tent in een landschap 1919

Reijer Stolk made this drawing of trees and a tent with ink on paper, we don't know exactly when. It feels like a fleeting impression, a moment captured on paper. The lines are so raw and immediate. Look at how he uses a quick scribble to suggest the density of the foliage. See the repetitive marks used to depict the side of the canvas. You can almost feel the artist's hand moving across the page, deciding what to include and what to leave out. What is the tent doing there? Why a tent? There's a beauty in the simplicity of the marks, how they build up to create a sense of depth and space. It reminds me of a Cy Twombly drawing. Both Stolk and Twombly share this sense of artistic freedom. They seem to embrace the idea of art as exploration, as a way of seeing and understanding the world, rather than a means of capturing it perfectly. There's space here to imagine the landscape in any way you like.