Decoratief ontwerp 1874 - 1945

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet made this decorative design with pen and ink on paper. What strikes me is how these shapes, somewhere between architecture and alphabet, feel both solid and fluid. The heavy ink gives them weight, but then there’s this playful quality in the looping lines that dance around the edges. Look closely, and you can see the artist's hand in every stroke. The ink isn't perfectly even; it bleeds and pools in places, which gives the whole design a kind of organic feel. I think of it like a garden where the plants have grown every which way. It makes me think of Hilma af Klint, who like Cachet, was reaching for a new visual language. Their art reminds us that art is an ongoing conversation, an exchange of ideas that stretches across time and space.