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An Intimate Insight into the Artist's Work

Throughout the ages, most artists have used drawings as an important part of their creative process. It has often been a medium where the artist could have more free reins to explore ideas and develop different methods, techniques and forms. Some ideas became studies for later works, while others remained sketches. A common trait for all of this artwork is that it allows us as viewers to learn more about the artist's personality and temperament through the often more spontaneous pen strokes. Whether it is a quickly jotted down sketch or a carefully laid out study for a larger piece, drawings can often provide us with a more intimate insight into the artist's work than other art forms do.

The same intimacy applies to the printed works of art, where skilled craftsmen have carefully engraved, cut or etched directly on copper plates or wood. With these techniques, it became possible to make art more accessible to people who otherwise would not be able to experience it. Drawings and prints are therefore not only important in the understanding of an artist's work process, but also in the understanding of the broader developments through art history.