Monday 17 December 2012

Michael de Kok / Giorgio Morandi



Giorgio Morandi
Natura Morta
1964
 
Morandi paints like no other, before or since. His brushstroke is in complete philosophical agreement with the subject, the scale and the color of his paintings. It is expressive, though it is modest, and not so expressionistic as to disturb the sense of meditative silence that inhabits all his paintings. He is timeless yet vital, timorous and seemingly threatened by something outside, yet determined and stoic in will to be. To be human. To stand noble, modest and resistant to the violence of the world. 
Sean Scully: Resistance and Persistence: Selected Writings  2006





Michael de Kok (NL) 
Untitled 
2012  
oil on linen
40 x 45 cm 
www.michaeldekok.com


Reinoud van Vught / Hieronymus Bosch




Hieronymus Bosch
The Garden of Earthly Delights
1480-1490 
oil on panel





Reinoud van Vught (NL) 
Untitled 
2009
oil on linen
150 x 120 cm
www.vanvught.com



René Korten / Philip Guston





Philip Guston
A Day’s Work
1970
oil on canvas
78 × 110 inches (198 x 279,5 cm)

“I felt like an explorer who almost got to the top of Mount Everest, and somehow stopped and remembered maybe I forgot some gear, you know, I forgot some equipment, but in going down to recover this equipment I took some sidepath that looked exciting and full of possibilities.”    
Philip Guston





René Korten (NL) 
Going Down For Gear
2009-2011
acrylic on MDF
98,5 x 120 cm
www.renekorten.nl