Scrivo (De Schrijver Arsne J)

SCRIVO(Arsène Joseph De Schrijver) -1942-Borsbeke-Belgium Painter.See also: (Pseudonym of De SCHRIJVER Arséne,Joseph) (Borsbeke 1942). Belgian Painter. Evening courses at the Academy of Brussels (1959). He started working in 1964 for the City of Brussels, as organizer of exhibitions. Because of this he was steadily in contact with home and foreign artists. (Picasso, Chagall, Alechinsky; Appel, Dotremont, Corneille, Mogens Bale, Mendelson, Quinet, Colon, Plomteux, Hick, Lorjou e.a.).Belongs as a painter to that group of artists who express their emotions in a direct artistic language. His paintings are always a rendition of his state of mind on that particular moment. Nothing is controlled, it is a spontaneous eruption of his complex mind. With fast, nervous brushstrokes, once feverish, once fearful and sometimes applied peacefully, he narrates in intense colors about tenderness, warmth, music. Often it is a cry as a reaction against events that hurt him.This is for the artist the only and right way to communicate his message and allows him to eternalize his vision on the canvas. About his works with the title: "Life's different roads" the artist tells: "These works are all made for the pure pleasure of painting. On th...

ScrivoTo me, the line is the god of paintingIt took him fourty years to evolve from a small dot to a small line, ISEL head editor Peter Cooreman mentioned seriously when he asked me to interview the art painter Scrivo. Scrivo (pseudonym for Arsène Joseph De Schrijver) laughs when I tell him this. This is a perfect summary indeed. I started with painting small circles, and now I am doing lines. It is a nice abstraction of my oeuvre. But to get this far, it has been a long way of searching with all kind of forms, colours, figures, materials, movements, perspectives, To arrive at this kind of simplicity, you always need to go a long way. I consider this as an evolution to the most fundamental. I paint as I am. What I paint, is coming from inside me. It is like I spit all my most intimate feelings, convictions and fears on to the canvas. It is like I liberate myself with a question for the viewer. Every painting I make, is a pure self portrait without any make-up, without posing; and in which I can clearly be recognized. My battlefield, the canvas on which I fire a burst of colours, is my confessional for getting rid of what I want to get rid off.The big happinessAs a sixteen year old he skipped fifth and sixth grade as the Fathers, w...