Opstilling med appelsin 1940 - 1944

Vilhelm Lundstrom made this drawing, Opstilling med appelsin, with graphite on paper. It's all about the push-and-pull between the real and the abstract. Lundstrom’s making marks, not trying to perfectly represent a bowl or a piece of fruit, but playing with form. Look how he builds up tone with these tiny hatched lines, almost like he's knitting the shadows together. You can feel the pressure of the pencil on the page, the way he's carving out space with light and dark. It’s a dance between observation and invention. That dark patch there, to the left, it’s not really describing anything, but it anchors the whole composition. It's like he's saying, "this isn't just a bowl and an orange, it's about the weight of objects, the density of seeing." It makes me think of Cezanne. Ultimately, it's about how we look, how we construct meaning from the simplest of things.