Gedeelte van een compostie met twee koppen 1878 - 1938

Richard Nicolaüs Roland Holst made this drawing, Gedeelte van een compostie met twee koppen, with graphite. I'm really drawn to the way Roland Holst uses these simple lines to suggest a whole world. It's like he's sketching out a thought, not just a picture. The softness of the graphite is key here; it allows for a real fluidity, a sense of movement and change. Check out the head on the right, the way it's formed with just a few strokes, leaving so much to the imagination. There's a wonderful ambiguity there, a feeling that the image could shift and change at any moment. It’s a reminder that art, at its best, is a process of discovery. It's not about arriving at a fixed point, but embracing the journey, the questions, and the multiple possibilities. This drawing reminds me a bit of Odilon Redon’s work, that same sense of dreamlike ambiguity and psychological depth. It makes me think about how artists are constantly in conversation with one another across time.