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Polluted Blue No.9 Painting

Dries Ketels

Belgium

Painting, Watercolor on Paper

Size: 18.1 W x 22 H x 0.4 D in

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Polluted Blue With his series ‘Polluted Blue’ the artist is searching for a new type of realism to represent sea sights. A realism in line with the values and movements of our century. Therefore he developed new painting methods and additional concepts. This results in an objective representation where he reduces the traditional ‘human aspects’ that are common for sea sights (boats, beach, lightning house, etc. ) just like in abstract paintings but without reducing its realistic quality. The realistic aspect of these paintings doesn’t rely in the visual aspects of it but more in the material aspects of it and the methods used to paint with them. These paintings are made out of the most important components of a ‘regular sea’ (every sea has its own molar composition, but for these works the artist chose the most common sea values ‘average sea’). Water (H2O), Natriumdichloride (NaCl), Natriumsulfate (Na2SO4), Magnesiumchloride (MgCl2), Calciumchloride (CaCl2), Magnesiumbromide (MgBr2) are used to implement the materialistic aspect of the sea in these paintings and generate different structures or soft insinuations. You could argue that the artist tried to obtain the most objective point of view towards the sea. The most objective viewpoint would probably be that of a computer that picks a random viewpoint towards the sea instead of a human choice. The chance that the computer will pick a viewpoint from inside the sea itself or some kind of bird view from above is much more likely than a perfect image from the beach with boats, lightning houses etc. Therefore you may interpret the composition of these paintings as a viewpoint from inside the sea itself and therefore a more objectified composition. I will not go in detail into the painting method but it is important to understand a part of it in order to feel the complexity of the technique. The artist wanted to obtain the most reflective and intense qualities of watercolour paintings and therefore painted it ‘wet in wet’ in one moment (no multiple drying processes, no multiple layers added after drying). Normally it’s impossible to generate a lot of structure within a ‘one moment wet in wet’ painting, but with the techniques that the artist developed it is possible to combine a lot of structure with this beautiful ‘wet in wet’ atmosphere and reflective quality. The white of the paper gets reflected in the most intense way because of the lack of different layers! The title of the painting is quiet simple to explain. While painting this image the artist ‘polluted’ the painting in order to create a blink towards our contemporary environmental problems where the sea gets polluted in various types of ways. Most of the techniques the artist uses are unique (only used by the artist), some of them are patented and therefore intellectual property of the artist. Only he is permitted to use them. Enjoy, Now, what to read next?: - an article about his works in Beautiful Decay: http://beautifuldecay.com/2015/06/24/lightning-strikes-artist-uses-electricity-create-captivating-portraits/ - an article about his works in StudioVox: https://studiovox.com/blog/fine-artists-you-should-know-2 Ps: This artwork is wrapped and framed with professional methods to reduce every possible transportation risks. This with extra protection plates in order to keep the weight low but still have a very similar protection as with craters.

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Painting:Watercolor on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:18.1 W x 22 H x 0.4 D in

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When I create a series of artworks I ask myself often the following question: “What would the art world, two centuries ago, have thought about this particular series?” Whenever the answer to that question is “They would surely love it.” I know I’m doing something wrong, that it's not progressive enough and not 22nd century oriented. It is my method to get rid of the ballast. In order to get forward we need to get rid of the ballast that holds us back, things that were very useful in the past but that are now out-dated, not ‘beautiful’ anymore, … is ballast that we need to let go. It’s the good old destruction-construction model, destroying parts of the past in order to build the future out of these ‘old’ building blocks. One of the most important attitudes that helped me in developing 'Abstract Realism' and becoming what I am is the simple act of going left when everybody else is going right. It’s the only way to discover the new and push the boundaries forward. Just like life, this creative process is a balancing act, what do we keep of our past and what do we let go. Watercolor is the medium of the future for painting! I strongly believe this. It’s simply the medium that can blend in most easily with all other fields of humanity (science, economy, etc.). Oh yes, before I forget. I should also implement some of the traditional stuff in a statement with terms like: self-motivation, autodidact, ambition, etc. and perhaps a philosophy difficult enough so you don't have the guts to say I'm wrong and strange enough so you can see that I'm an artist. All of that just to show you that I'm serious with my art. Well, let me put it like this: I'm very serious! The best of luck for all of you,

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