Jean Brusselmans
Vuurtoren te Oostende
1936
oil on canvas
oil on canvas
86 x 101 cm
collection Mu.ZEE Oostende
collection Mu.ZEE Oostende
The work of Jean
Brusselmans has a disarming simplicity and naive force that always hits me. His
paint regions are resolutely and stripped of frills. There speakes innocence,
vulnerability and a great sincerity.
Jean Brusselmans took the
ordinariness of people and things around him as his subject. They where a means
of achieving an essence of the form reduced to geometric patterns.
A critic once called him an
expressionist, what he loathed, for his painting was not a search for emotion;
his painting was a search for a way of thinking, he said himself because a
paint zone had to remain a paint zone and a line a line.
He built a structure in
which each form got its completely natural and convincing place. He said
himself: "The composition is essential. It creates the order, gives each
character and object a place and arranges the lines of the painting, straight
horizontal or oblique. It devides shadow and light and gives each object a character,
expression and life of its own"
The rhythm in many of his
works is like the rhythm of a peace of music.
Visible is his admiration for
folk art. Brusselman says: "Folk art has -in addition to van Gogh,
Courbet, van Eyck and the Greek- learned me the most after all."
Gabriëlle
van de Laak, 2015
Gabriëlle van de Laak
Succulent
2015
glass
in Meccano
24
x 21 x 13 cm
Gabriëlle van de Laak
Zonder titel
2015
acrylic
on cotton
40
x 40 cm
Gabriëlle van de Laak (NL)
Pigeon
2006
mixed
media on paper
43
x 61 cm
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