Notities 1905

This page of notations, by Willem Cornelis Rip, is done with ink on paper. I imagine the artist jotting down these notes, maybe in a studio filled with the aroma of oil paint. The handwriting is loose, full of numbers and scribbled words, like a snapshot of the artist’s mind at work. These aren't just random scribbles; they're the residue of a painter wrestling with form and color. You can almost see the ghost of a brushstroke in the way the ink dances across the page. There's something really human about seeing the raw process, the behind-the-scenes mess that leads to a finished piece. I can imagine him thinking about how one color relates to another, making a note of it, and then moving on, never looking back. Rip reminds me of Cy Twombly, but with less grandiosity. Rip's not trying to make a statement; he's just trying to figure things out, one note at a time. It’s like a peek into the artist's creative ecosystem, inspiring me to embrace the messy, uncertain aspects of my own painting.