De to heste; samt studie af heste 1843

Johan Thomas Lundbye created this understated drawing of horses using pen and ink. Note how Lundbye divides the pictorial space into three distinct zones, each capturing the horses in different poses. Lundbye employs a semiotic system, where the fragmented and incomplete rendering of the horses destabilizes traditional representational conventions. The negative space surrounding each study becomes as crucial as the drawn figures themselves, influencing our perception. The structural composition encourages us to see each horse study not as isolated sketches, but as interconnected components. The visible, almost skeletal linework exposes the underlying structure, revealing the artist's process of observation and construction. The composition challenges our understanding of form and representation. It invites us to ponder the relationship between the visible and the invisible, the complete and the fragmented.