This graphite pencil drawing ‘The Venus of The Hague – 23-05-20 (Sold)’ is the first variation after the intitial one. First I went further in abstracting body shapes after my roundism style. Still referring to the play of light and dark in the original though. After all I am and always will be a sucker for atmospheric depth caused by that play. Even though I like artists like Matisse but not for their rejection of the suggestion of 3 dimensionality. Somehow I don’t find it very amusing to underlign the limitation of 2 dimensionality too much. Isn’t that where art resides? To exploit that limitation to the max and suggest more than it factually is?
Right from the start it was my goal to try to connect to previous works. In these I experimented with conical shapes and get the best of both abstract and figurative worlds. In my view abstraction and realism are two sides of the same coin. Why not try to fool the spectator into believing he or she is experiencing both simultaneously? In such respect I’m feeling neither comfortable being typed as a realist nor as an abstract artist. Maybe that’s due to my stubborn character.
My other aim was to find attractive circles, rectangles and triangles and combine them. By doing so I trick spectators into believing the model to be real somehow. It would be lovely to have people fall in love with geometrics rather than a nude woman. Perhaps I do some more after this motif but not sure what to do next. Let me ponder.
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Graphite pencil drawing (Sakura 0.5 mm, 3B) on Canson Bristol paper (21 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm) – A4 format)
Artist: Corné Akkers
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