Berg en Dal 30-10-23, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper, 2023

Corné Akkers  

Something more cubist This graphite pencil drawing 'Berg en Dal' – 30-10-23 is my next in the series of the same name. By doing the last one, I really found my rhythm. This one was more impressionistic than cubist but I don't see any drawback in it. I like the result nevertheless. However, a previous drawing has persisted in my mind, a much more abstract landscape. It's like that, from a more realistic approach to the abstract. Years ago, I also drew a cubist forest in the same municipality. It turns out I found the perfect reference photo. That is why I was very eager to transform it into something beautiful. Sparkling diamonds You see, last weekend, I went to the real place. I took photos of wonderful hills with autumn-colored trees. Not the photo above however. I took that one in summer. It is in my ideas folder on my computer, still waiting to be used. The real landscape was full of foliage structures. I think it is somewhere between the Jan Dommer van Polderveldtsweg and the Boterberg. Although the leaves and light are scattered on a narrow path along the hills with large trees marking it. They looked like sparkling diamonds waiting for me to tear them with a pencil. Blinded by the light My cubist interpretation of the Valley of the Philosophers of 2015 was done in the same style. Personally, I think this one could be more refined. There are many cubist planes certainly, but when I compared them, I see differences. The planar distribution is more subtle without becoming fragmented. That is what you see when walking on a leafy path anyway. Sometimes, you are almost blinded by the light, troubled by the agitated patterns of light and dark. What do you say, does it lean more towards the impressionistic side than cubist? It's not that I care much.