Notities 1890 - 1946

Cornelis Vreedenburgh made this work, Notities, using graphite to create a page crammed full of text and numbers. It feels like a peek inside the artist’s brain, you know? I imagine Vreedenburgh hunched over a desk, furiously scribbling these notes. What was he working on? It looks like a jumble of calculations and annotations. The cancellations and corrections suggest a mind working through ideas, crossing things out, changing his mind - just like painting! It’s like, in that moment of creation, the artist is totally absorbed. It's interesting to see how artists use different ways of recording their thoughts and creative processes. It makes me think about the connection between seeing, thinking, and making. I wonder what kind of a conversation Vreedenburgh was having with himself when he put this together.