Briefkaart aan Jan Veth Possibly 1903 - 1913

This postcard was penned by Johannes Martinus Messchaert to Jan Veth, and carries stamps postmarked in 1903. Look at how the ink moves across the surface, how the pressure varies, creating thicks and thins – you can almost feel the hand guiding the pen, responding to the paper's texture. The cursive script itself becomes a kind of drawing, a dance between intention and chance. See how the loops of the letters rise and fall, each stroke carrying its own weight and rhythm. There's a raw, immediate quality to it, like a fingerprint of the artist’s thought. It makes me think of Cy Twombly's scribbled paintings, where language breaks down into pure gesture, and meaning is found not in legibility, but in the energy of the line. This postcard reminds us that art is just one person talking to another, a message in a bottle cast out into the sea of time. The real beauty of art lies in the questions it opens up, not the answers it provides.