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Netherlands
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 23.6 W x 19.7 H x 0.8 D in
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What are you dreaming about? What am I dreaming about? For me, almost every painting begins with a vague afterimage of a dream, an Arcadian landscape, an encounter. I start the day with an idea. Then the painting begins. Is it possible to maintain the atmosphere, to arrive at the image I want, the image I apparently have in my head. One of my dreams is to paint abstractly, but in practice I rarely do that. Sometimes I want to get away from all connotations and meaning and still make an exciting painting. But exciting is also a kind of meaning. Is emptiness an abstract concept? Does meaningless exist? There are a few paintings where I make progress and there are many more where I release that effort. Soon it is a landscape again, a face. Also good of course. So this is a colorful, cheerful, fresh, almost abstract painting and at the same time unmistakably a landscape. May 2005, spring. Made in 2005. Updated in 2022, it says on the back, but I don't know what and I can't see it. If paintings are left lying around in my studio, I am not satisfied with them. Sooner or later I'm going to 'improve' them, change them. That does not always work. This one is totally fine. Signed lower left RS.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:23.6 W x 19.7 H x 0.8 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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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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