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Why Not Leiden? This graphite pencil drawing ‘Hortus Botanicus – 26-05-24’ yet another impressionist view. Since the last one ‘Arentsdorp – 17-05-24’ I thought of doing something similar but outside The Hague. My initial plan was to depict Leiden again, the town where I once studied. It’s not far away from here, some 10 miles north. There is a great bike path and sometimes I wonder why I don’t visit the place more often. Anyway, there was a sound reason of heading there a week ago. There was this annual Japanese Fair along The Rapenburg I would like to visit. Even the weather was nice so went for a little ride. Memory Lane Once I got to the fair it was a bit of a let down. Not the stuff I would like to buy and disappointingly no great kimono’s. Only cheap stuff and no fresh products, etc. Since I wasn’t into bowls, books or other paraphernalia I fled straight into the Hortus Botanicus situated behind the Academiegebouw. It must have been 30 years ago since I was there for the last time after I graduated. So definitively memory lane here. Why not go there for some inspiration?
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2024
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Graphite on Paper
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8.3 W x 5.8 H x 0.1 D in
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Corné Akkers
Netherlands
1969, born in Nijmegen. My work can be seen in many countries all over the world. Corné employs a variety of styles that all have one thing in common: the ever search for the light on phenomena and all the shadows and light planes they block in. His favorites in doing so are oil paint, dry pastel and graphite pencil. He states that it’s not the form or the theme that counts but the way planes of certain tonal quality vary and block in the lights. Colours are relatively unimportant and can take on whatever scheme. It’s the tonal quality that is ever present in his work, creating the illusion of depth and mass on a flat 2d-plane. Corné combines figurative work with the search for abstraction because neither in extremo can provide the desired art statement the public expects from an artist. Besides all that, exaggeration and deviation is the standard and results in a typical use of a strong colour scheme and a hugh tonal bandwith, in order to create art that, when the canvas or paper would be torn into pieces, in essence still would be recognizable.
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