Autobus op een straat 1890 - 1946

Cornelis Vreedenburgh made this ink drawing, Autobus op een straat, on paper, probably en plein air. The marks are very economical, all straight lines, made with a fine nib. I'm thinking about how the artist must have worked quickly to capture the essence of the moment. What was it like to stand there and watch people move about? We see this vehicle, some buildings and some figures sketched in with these incredibly fast marks. The whole image looks as if it’s about to take off, like a machine itself. What I love most is the flatness. The artist is not trying to represent depth, but rather the feeling of being there and observing the everyday activity that surrounds them. This reminds me that drawing is a type of thinking, a form of embodied expression that allows us to embrace ambiguity and uncertainty and find new meanings in our environment.