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The image on the right by
RUDOLF ENGERS
is made with an ordinary paint-roller. It is a very simple way not using a brush as most painters usually do. ENGERS worked in a very subtle way, just touching the paper with a narrow surface of the roller. In that way he gained a lively "print". It is from 1959. |
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| In our opinion it all started with the use of sand and ashes by TAP�ES : a way to thicken the paint from a tube, so that it is possible to use it as a kind of paste. At the same time that influences the colour of the paint: darker, greyish, dryer. It is no wonder that the colour black was used often. In the painting at the right, COR DE NOBEL, 1958, also used plaster of Paris besides sand, ashes and siccative. |
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TAJOKA , who we met before, made this drawing in 1958. He made his own ink and his own feather-pens. He had been, as a sailorman, in Japan and was a real ZEN-adept knowing several japanese poems by head. Even the strokes of the pen here are "japanese" and recalls strongly the characters in japanese writing. |
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Here another painting which shows (use the thumbnail!) clearly the use of "new" materials: sand, ashes and plaster of Paris, and a lot of siccative. People in that time used to say that the painting would be destroyed soon. That was in '58 and it is still in order. Later on you can see the use of glass and iron. COR DE NOBEL , from 1958. |
| The collage here at the right seems a joke, because it is a greeting-card, but HERMAN DE VRIES used all sorts of material to give birth to his ideas. He was famous for using (very old) napkins which he ducked in plaster so they stiffened. The Museum Groningen posesses a large collection of his "leaves" as we call them (real leaves from real trees) which he arranged with great accuracy. The date of this collage is clear: 1959. |
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| The last image on this page is made by the painter JAN CREMER . He became famous in the Netherlands with his book "Ik Jan Cremer" from the time that he advertised himself as an "angry young man" . Later on he made big paintings and tried to sell them for f. 1.000.000.= which did not work out. He painted in an expressionistic way: speedy in wide strokes and with pure colours (Sold to gallery "de Rijk" in The Hague.) |
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