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A Midsummer Night’s Dream – 05-04-22 Urgency This oil painting ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is born out of some kind of felt urgency. Never before in my life I longed for Spring and Summer in particular than this year. Post corona and now with the war blazing in the Ukraine the entire planet can use warmth, literaly and figuratively. Hence, the creation of this dream of a lush sultry summer night. Scrolling through my drawings ‘Roundism – 12-10-15’ logically caught my eye. From the hundreds I made throughout the years this one must have been selected by my subconsciousness. Only when it’s hot you can stay under the blue pale moonlight in the nude. Third Time Around That referential drawing met my artistic expectations back then and it still does. The second one, the pastel, was an attempted elaboration of the graphite one. Even though I found a nice color scheme the nigthly impression was lost a bit. That is why in the back of my head doing an oil on the subject still kept lingering on. Next was what color scheme I should use this time. It was certain to me I had to use lots of blueish colors. Pride and Prejudice At the same time I remembered a movie I saw a couple of years ago. There was this incredible scene in Pride and Prejudice where Keira Knigthley as Ms Bennett is standing outside, covered in pale blue light. It must have been the moment where she is on a balcony at the grand party. I remembered I always wanted to do such a scene but didn’t want to lower myself to mere copying a screen still. Another aspect is the fascination with the effect of certain exposures of the skin. I always like when so-called ‘normal’ skin hues are altered, subtlely or radically. It can turn totally blue but in this particular case there were still hints of brownish reds and pinks visible. Even though the theme is totally different from the movie, the lighting was heavily inspired by the aforementioned scene. Oil on linen (60 x 80 cm) Artist: Corné Akkers
Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Size:8 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:13.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:White
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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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