Twee vazen met bloemen c. 1904 - 1906

Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof made this drawing of two vases with flowers, using pen on paper. The sketchiness here is super charming, isn't it? Like a quick thought caught on paper. You can almost feel Dijsselhof figuring things out as he goes. The lines are so light, like he barely touched the paper. I love how the flowers are these loose, scribbly masses. They're not trying to be perfect representations; they're more like gestures, a feeling of flowers rather than a precise picture. And those vases, so simple, just a few lines to suggest their shape. Look at the bottom of the vase on the right; the artist has gone back and forth to anchor the form. It's like seeing the artist's mind at work. It reminds me of Matisse's line drawings, that same sense of capturing the essence of something with the fewest possible marks. Art is just one big conversation, after all. The magic here is in the ambiguity, letting our imagination fill in the gaps.