Stad met stadsmuren op een heuvel in de Provence 1943

Lodewijk Schelfhout made this print of a city with fortified walls on a hill in Provence, using etching. This etching isn't just a picture; it's a feeling. It makes me think about all the people who lived in that city on a hill, and what it must have been like to walk around there. I wonder what Schelfhout was thinking when he made it? Did he visit this place, and sketch it there and then? Did he maybe only see it in a photograph, but it made him feel something special? The light feels soft and warm, like you might want to just sit there all day long, dreaming. Maybe that's what being an artist is all about - dreaming up something new. Like Bonnard, he shows us that a print can be a site of inquiry into the poetics of seeing.