Løse rids 1900 - 1905

Niels Larsen Stevns made this little drawing, Løse rids, on paper, and those marks feel so good. I love seeing how artists explore forms with these kinds of tentative lines. You can imagine Stevns making these open, arcing gestures, searching for shapes, maybe flowers. It's like the drawing is breathing, expanding and contracting, a testament to the artist's curiosity. There's a real conversation happening between the eye and the hand here. Each mark informs the next, a call and response that feels so intimate. The way these lines curve and meet, they remind me of Matisse's drawings, or even Cy Twombly’s scribbles, even though Stevns' lines are more precise. It’s funny how artists, across time, are all wrestling with similar problems, trying to capture something essential with just a few strokes.