Abstracte compositie 1994

Harrie Gerritz created this abstract composition using crayon and chalk manner. I love how simple gestures become something evocative, like a shorthand for feeling. It's like Gerritz is improvising here, letting these marks dance across the surface. The color palette is subdued—earthy reds, yellows, and blacks against the off-white paper. It's a playful composition, with those loose squiggles at the top almost like a musical score and then the pool of blue at the bottom with horizontal dashes that evokes water. It's like the whole thing is breathing! You can feel the artist experimenting, questioning, pushing the medium to its limits. Every stroke is a decision, a reaction to the previous one. Painting becomes a conversation, a back-and-forth between the artist and the canvas. And like all good conversations, it's open to interpretation, allowing us to bring our own experiences and emotions to the mix. It is an open invitation to imagine the creative process.