Studie, mogelijk van een landschap c. 1902 - 1914

This study, possibly of a landscape, was made by George Hendrik Breitner with graphite on paper. Look at those lines – scratchy, searching, like the artist is trying to find the essence of something fleeting. I can relate; sometimes you just have to let the hand do the work, scribble until something emerges. Maybe Breitner was out in a field, the wind whipping around him, trying to capture the feeling of the place more than a literal depiction. It reminds me of some of Guston’s nervous, searching lines, how they convey a sense of unease. See how the lines cluster and then dissipate? It’s like a visual record of a thought process, a kind of mapping of the artist's mind. Artists are always in conversation, you know, across time and space. We build on each other’s attempts, failures, and little moments of discovery.