Sheet of Studies

John Flaxman

National Gallery of Art

This is a drawing of multiple abstract and minimal sketches. The drawing contains various simplistic line sketches scattered across the page, depicting vague outlines and shapes. The lines are faint and give a sense of preliminary ideas or early conceptions being laid out. The scene radiates a feeling of sketchiness typical of brainstorming or draft stages, lacking detail but containing potential narratives within each grouping of lines.