Duinlandschap 1881 - 1927

Johan Antonie de Jonge made this landscape drawing with what looks like graphite or charcoal. It's all about mark-making. I love how the strokes build up, almost like the landscape itself is forming right before our eyes. The texture is really palpable; you can feel the roughness of the paper through the charcoal. The artist really lets the material do its thing. Take a look at the way he renders the bushes in the foreground – short, scribbly marks that create this dense, tangled mass. It's not about perfect representation, but more about capturing the feeling of being in this wild, overgrown place. This sketch reminds me a little of some of Twombly’s looser drawings, where the line takes on a life of its own. It's all about process, about the act of seeing and translating that vision onto paper. Art’s like that, an ongoing conversation, full of possibilities, never just one way of seeing things.