Twee heren en een jongen met een ezel 1900 - 1935

Patricq Kroon created this ink drawing, "Two Gentlemen and a Boy with a Donkey," sometime in the late 19th or early 20th century, and right away I’m drawn to the wobbly lines that give it a life of its own. The scratchy texture, like hasty scribbles, is where the magic happens. It's a drawing, but the ink feels like it’s trying to be paint, you know? Look at the donkey’s fur, the way it’s just a flurry of marks, and how that same energy is in the clouds and the beach. Kroon’s not trying to hide the process; he's all about letting the hand do the talking. I love how the hatching of the lines creates the tonal range. It makes me think of Daumier, another artist who knew how to make a simple line say so much. Art’s like a big conversation across time, each artist riffing off the others, right? It's never really about one single way of seeing, more like a bunch of maybes.