Opstilling med krukke og æbler 1945 - 1948

This is Vilhelm Lundstrom’s sketch of a still life with a jug and apples. It’s a small drawing in pencil. Looking at it, I imagine Lundstrom’s process, the shifting and emerging of forms through tentative lines. I feel for him making this. He’s working out what it might be like to be a modern artist, thinking about Cezanne. The jar and apples teeter on the table-top edge. Lundstrom must have been thinking about form in a new way. It’s like he's redrawing the world, rediscovering how to make a still life, how to make a painting. He’s making it new through a cubist lens. The drawing is a way of seeing, thinking, and experiencing the world. I think artists are in an ongoing conversation, inspiring each other’s creativity, embracing ambiguity, and allowing for multiple interpretations. Lundstrom is part of this artistic dance.