Landschap met figuren op een hooiwagen 1913 - 1917

This landscape with figures on a hay wagon was made in pencil by Alexander Shilling. You know, I think drawing is the most direct way to see the world – it's like thinking with your hand. Here, the lines are loose and sketchy, almost like he’s trying to catch a fleeting moment. Look at the way he's rendered the trees – just a bunch of quick strokes, but somehow you can feel the weight and the texture of the bark. And the hay wagon, piled high with hay and people, it's all rendered with these scribbly lines that suggest movement and energy. There's a real immediacy to the drawing, like he’s just trying to capture the essence of the scene before it disappears. Shilling reminds me a little of Van Gogh. Both artists are interested in the everyday, in capturing the beauty and the grit of the world around them, even in just a few lines. It's about finding the extraordinary in the ordinary, you know?