Man loopt richting een auto before 1934

F. Ockerse made this drawing titled 'Man loopt richting een auto', or 'Man walking towards a car' with ink. The way Ockerse uses line is pretty special; it's both descriptive and super expressive. Look at the figure walking towards the car. The lines defining his pajamas aren't just about showing stripes, they also suggest the movement of fabric, the way it hangs and folds. You can almost feel the give in the cloth. I wonder if Ockerse had a personal connection to this scene. Maybe it was a memory, something seen, something felt? The tree has this wild, scribbled energy that feels really emotive, like a stand-in for complex feeling. It reminds me a little of the graphic quality you see in some of Philip Guston's later work, where the line itself does so much of the heavy lifting. It's as if Ockerse is saying, "Here's a world, a moment, rendered in the simplest, most direct way."