Henri Jacobs / Enguerrand Quarton

Enguerrand Quarton
La Pietà de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon
ca 1455-1460
oil on panel
Musée du Louvre Paris

Thought

Could the first-ever drawing have been a single line drawn in the sand, or a line drawn with charcoal? Or was it the print of a hand covered with mud? Or the negative of that hand by using a spray of mud over the hand on a stone surface.
So, was it a single line in sand or a line of charcoal, the print of a hand, the leftover of a hand?

Or could the first drawing have been made by five fingertips dipped in mud to draw five short lines?
I suppose there wasn’t any idea or plan. The acting person didn’t foresee what she or he was doing, perhaps she was surprised or even enchanted.
As in Stanley Kubrick’s film '2001 A Space Odyssey' apes were surprised while playing to discover that a bone could be a weapon with which to hit other apes. From that moment civilization was born.

Henri Jacobs, 2014

Henri Jacobs (NL/BE)
Ecriture pictographique no 1
2007
oil pastel wall drawing
Galerie Paul Andriesse Amsterdam

www.henrijacobs.be

Johan de Haas / Rein Draijer

Rein Draijer

Tafelberg Zuid-Afrika

1958

oil on canvas

96 x 120 cm

Rein Draijer is a versatile artist (1899-1986), painter, sculptor, designer of stamps and a lecturer at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. His work exudes a strong, sober and simple vision of reality. Both realistic and abstract values ​​form a cohesive unit. As a very valued teacher Rein Draijer taught us ordering perception as well as handling visual elements and materials.

I myself am a painter, restorer and a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Arnhem. In particular, I have focused on the handling of materials and the significance of light in that.'Monochroom Vaalgroen' (Monochrome Pale Green) is one-colored. The differences in color, light-dark and cool-warm are caused by the handling of tools that have left traces. In 'Composition', color, shape and handling of material can be observed simultaneously and therefore are interchangeable.

Johan de Haas, 2014

Johan de Haas

Monochroom Vaalgroen

1983

oil on panel

25 x 66 cm

collection Provincie Gelderland

 

Johan de Haas (NL)

Grijsgloed

1990

oil on panel

46 x 46 cm
collection Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
www.johandehaas.nl

Anet van de Elzen / Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois

Portrait Louise Bourgeois

by Robert Mapplethorpe  

1982, printed 1991

photograph, gelatine silver print on paper

37,5 x 37,4 cm 

Louise Bourgeois - the photo of Robert Mapplethorpe really tells best why I admire her. Her life and work are interwoven, she is the work and the work is her. But of course it is actually a portrait, which again is in line with my work.

Anet van de Elzen, 2014

The work she produces does not stand for Anet van de Elzen. ‘It won't give you a glimpse of the identity of the artist', says one of the authors of this book, Brian Catling. The work stands for the viewer. There is nothing in between, not even Anet van de Elzen. In fact she goes one step further: she dissolves in her work. For her it is simply the natural thing to do. Everything Anet van de Elzen is not in daily life, she is in her work. ‘What it is not is an everyday thing'. You will recognize it as how you, the onlooker, experience her work. It is not an experience that can be shared with others; you can talk about it, perhaps, but you cannot share the other's feelings. Whatever you see has a different meaning than what another sees in it. You need to look for the significance of this work in yourself, not in the artist. When she talks about it, she talks about the manifestation of the image and how it came into being, about the physical form it has taken, but not about the effect it produces.
Alex de Vries, part of his text 'The inner plumb line' in Un beso al cielo, retrospective catalogue of Anet van de Elzen 2004

Anet van de Elzen

Untitled

2012

B & W photograph, gelatine silver print

110 x 75 cm 
 

 

Anet van de Elzen

Taste - One of five senses

Performance at Fierce Festival in Birmingham 

2013

photo by Nils Kenninck

Anet van de Elzen (NL)

X

From Echo the Now

2014

30 second clip
www.anetvandeelzen.com

luc vandervelde lux / Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer

Study of Drapery

1521

brush drawing on paper

20,8 x 21 cm (framed: 47,9 x 40 x 3,9 cm)

Albertina, Vienna

Albrecht Dürer is one of the biggest influencers in my life. His work is why I chose to become an artist. I admired the versatility in his art. His drawings and self portraits are from an indescribable beauty.

Even though my work stems from a completely different type of output, it is very much influenced by Albrecht Dürer.

When I saw the picture 'the Study of a Drapery' it was so refreshing to me despite the fact it’s from 1521. It inspired me so much that it created a totally new turning point in my work and transformed the types of artistic pieces I produce. From that moment on I stopped using traditional painting materials. 

luc vandervelde lux, 2014

luc vandervelde lux (BE)

Untitled (1521)

mixed media on wooden frame

150 x 200 cm
www.lucvanderveldelux.com