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In the winter of 2022, just before the Russian attack on Ukraine, I started working on the control rooms. This one entitled 'My first control room' is in fact the second. The world is increasingly governed from control rooms. We see the world through screens, in 2d instead of in real life. We miss everything, the smell, the nature, the atmosphere. And yet this is how we try to understand and govern the world. Control rooms are well-shielded areas, without authorization and a pass you are usually not allowed to enter. But what are we looking at? In a corner just watching a football match. Or to something amazing in the universe. Or to an abstract painting? Santa Claus, yes. Look, he throws a package into a chimney. And the painter Anthony van Dijck is watching us. Who throws that tennis ball? What are those birds doing there? And that blue sky, an open roof, then it will leak, won't it?
Original Created:2022
Subjects:Business
Materials:Canvas
Styles:ContemporaryFigurativeModern
Mediums:Acrylic
Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Size:8 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:13.25 W x 15.25 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:White
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Netherlands
I studied journalism, but I wanted to be an artist. I visited two art academies in the Netherlands and it felt like coming home. It was 1975. I never finished them, I'm still learning. First inspired by the Beatles and Zappa, then Byrds and the Velvet Underground. Pop music, pop art, Warhol. Van Gogh, then Beuys, DaDa, Matisse, de Kooning, wow the world of paint and color. I was sure this was my way of contributing to the world. Painting, on the border between reality and feeling. Landscape, portraits, human relationships, communication, abstract or figurative, balance, yes, always color and lines, intention and spontaneity. Concept. I did many other things to earn money and continued painting. In 1993 I wrote a book with many of my drawings: 'Never shy again'. A modest success and a turning point, finding my own way as an artist. I became a trainer and continued to paint. I started studying Taoist philosophy in 2003, until now. Since 2011 I have had a large workshop in an old factory. I'm still learning, Rembrandt, Frans Hals, classical painters. Modern painters, Hockney, Freud, Basquiat, Kiefer. Mental landscapes, mental portraits, music. Language is part of my art. My personal quest, our human quest. Always back to nature and Tao. My work is diverse, colorful, experimental and expressive. Between figurative and abstract. In addition to paintings and drawings, I also make wooden sculptures. Looking for the light. Looking for peace, for everything and everyone. “Home is the way, there is no way home.”
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