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In Here R736 Painting
Netherlands
Painting, Oil on Plywood
Size: 36.2 W x 35.8 H x 1.2 D in
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This painting is about us participating and watching. It's about keeping your distance and being enthusiastic. Childlike fun. Should you paint what touches you? Wars and climate change sometimes make me desperate. What can I do? I paint with Ukrainian children. I cycle and live simply. But I'm not an activist. Yet I think it is fantastic what Nan Goldin is doing with her action group PAIN (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now). Big companies that make people addicted, that destroy the earth and in the meantime they make a good impression by sponsoring museums. How colorful can you make it? Should a painting offer hope? Does an artist have a task? You don't have to do anything, you can dance, paint, watch. Same goes for me. I can create my work in my own way. What's my way? I always have an idea, a starting point. About color, or surface, or theme, or combinations. People, faces, landscapes. Sometimes I have a photo, but I can paint it realistically, I can do it, but my added value is playfulness, fun, life. And I have tools. Paint, brush, surface. Versatile experience, since 1977, with trial and error. It starts in this melting pot of possibilities. And immediately things change. Once started, a journey of its own arises. Response to response. Color against color. Form against form. Line against another line. Planes, mixed shapes. Horizontal versus vertical. Figures, faces, hands often emerge. What's exciting? When will it be ready?
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Oil on Plywood
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:36.2 W x 35.8 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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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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