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Curator: This sketch, by John Flaxman, held at the Tate, presents a study of funerary monuments. Editor: It's a study in grief, really. Stark, almost desolate. The line work is so sparse, yet it conveys so much. Curator: Precisely. Note the classical restraint in the composition, the figures rendered with a Neoclassical sensibility. Flaxman’s use of line dictates form. Editor: And the way those figures are laid out, almost architecturally. It’s like grief made geometric. I find myself drawn to the tenderness in the central figures. Curator: A striking contrast to the surrounding funerary architecture, wouldn’t you agree? Editor: It makes you think about how we memorialize loss, doesn't it? It's a thoughtful, touching study. Curator: A testament to Flaxman's ability to capture emotion through form and line. Editor: Yes, quite. Grief captured in pencil.