Stående kvindelig model set skråt bagfra 1881 - 1927

Harald Giersing made this drawing of a standing female model with pencil on paper at an unknown date. You can see how he’s trying to figure it out, right? I can imagine him circling her form, trying to catch the light as it moved across her back. I love how Giersing seems to be working towards something, not quite resolved, but so full of potential. Maybe he was thinking about the way Degas drew figures, or maybe he was just trying to get the curve of the spine exactly right. It’s so amazing, the way a simple pencil line can communicate so much about weight, volume, and the body. You can almost feel the model shifting her weight, trying to hold the pose. It’s like all of us artists are constantly in conversation, borrowing and riffing off each other's ideas, trying to make something new. Painting is really an embodied expression, an open-ended exploration.