Bettie Page – 28-08-17
Returning to Bettie Page once in a while because her body was so slender and enables me to exploit my style of roundism to the max.
Returning to Bettie Page once in a while because her body was so slender and enables me to exploit my style of roundism to the max.
A commissioned piece I did for someone who loved my roundism style. She likes to do holiday trips with their favorite car, a vintage Porsche Carrera.
As I came across Delft by bike I saw the ‘Nieuwe Kerk’ bathing in sunlight and thought it to be a great opportunity to send it to heaven being a Saturnus rocket standing on a launch platform.
A second commission for the man in the title of the work. This one is done in the style from the (my) past when I liked to combine angular planes and hatched strokes.
A couple of weeks ago I came across the Tour of Rijswijk when I was on my way to Delft.
Some time ago I saw a cloud that perfectly looked like a baby elephant.
A continuation of the same image also used for the pastel drawing ‘Into the light – 15-06-17’.
A view on the Sint Janskerk from Museum Gouda at Gouda, Zuid-Holand, Netherlands.
Berlage’s kiosk (at The Hague) – 22-06-17 (sold)
The principles of singularity as defined visually by me, put on paper with regard to a view on the harbour of Vlaardingen, a town near Rotterdam, Netherlands.
In this drawing I tried to work out my (artistic) understanding of singularity.
During my lessons as a teacher I stell my students there is no end to perfection and one never can tell when a painting or drawing is finished.
The working title was ‘God is loose’ but ‘Ascension’ describes it better.
These times call for a poet that says it all.
This one represents Darja Collin, fomer wife of J. Slauerhoff, a great dutch poet and writer of the 1930s.
Part of the roundism series. I was fascinated by the squares and round forms I detected in the body.
Part of the roundism series, in which I wanted to keep a big part of the body open and indicate and style only a portion of the shades.
Part of the roundism series, in which I wanted to keep a big part of the body open and indicate and style only a portion of the shades.
I was at ‘Rumour in de Stad’ at the Gemeentemuseum where I saw Breinter, Israëls, among others and this drawing is derived from a photograph Breitner took more than a century ago.
American band ‘The Shins’ performed at music temple ‘Paradiso’ at Amsterdam last 30th March 2017.
I was invited for a harpsichord concert at the home of one of my students.
Situated in the heart of The Hague (Den Haag) next to the Tweede Kamer (dutch Parliament). I wanted to break up the scene into circles, planes and triangles.
Situated at Rotterdam, Delftshaven is the old harbour entree for the city of Delft, at the north of Rotterdam. I wanted to do a drawing full of atmosperic depth but still with a bit of cubist styling in it.
A cubistic view on a bridge over the Hooigracht at The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
Bettie Page was an American pin-up of the 1950s that stood for her sexual liberation in an America that yet had to face the sexual revolution of the 1960s.
Another drawing by me of Bettie Page returning to surrealism again. After scrutinizing her features and estimating what her character would have been like I came to an inescapable conclusion. Eggs, rabbits, dogs and snakes could be derived from her and were essential for her expression.
A portrait of my dad in roundistic forms. Always great to turn bushes and trees into round and abstract shapes.
I change from nudity to landscapes a lot and I find trees equally attractive.
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