Dandelion at the garden fence c. 1924

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner made this drawing, Dandelion at the garden fence, with ink on paper. I love the immediacy of this piece. You can almost see Kirchner's hand moving across the paper. The ink is so expressive, isn't it? Like he's trying to capture the dandelion's essence in just a few strokes. He probably stood outside, observing the plant, and trying to capture the essence of the scene before him, balancing precision with expressive mark-making. The way he uses line and tone reminds me of other expressionist artists. It is like he's in dialogue with them through this image. It's like they are all asking each other ‘how can we make this new feeling visible?’