Landschap, mogelijk een duinlandschap 1884 - 1927

This work, *Landschap, mogelijk een duinlandschap,* was made by Johan Antonie de Jonge, and looks like graphite on paper, all about touch and the hand. The landscape is built from layered marks, the process of drawing left visible, not concealed. You can see the artist thinking aloud, the rubbed and layered marks allow you to see the landscape emerge, bit by bit. Look at the right-hand side, the darker tones almost obscure the scene, but the white of the page is allowed to shine through like a light in the darkness. See how it illuminates the marks around it? The more you look, the more it seems to coalesce, just like memory. It reminds me a bit of Corot and those tonal landscapes he used to make. Art is always a conversation, we learn from each other, across time. This piece is all about seeing and feeling, not just knowing.