Har van der Put / Hendrick Goltzius

Hendrick Goltzius

Portrait of Giambologna

1591

crayon, ochre on tinted paper

37 x 30 cm

Teylers Museum Haarlem

To choose an artist from the many great painters who have influenced my work is an impossibility. In fact it would be much easier to make a negative selection...

The paintings of Hendrick Goltzius for example are just not my piece of cake... though I do admire him as a draftsman! 

I've been exclusively painting for the last years but currently I am drawing intensively. 

This portrait depicts the artist Giambologna. It is done precisely and yet full of vivid expression. 

Although my work is going in another direction, for me this drawing of Goltzius remains a beacon of energetic clarity.

Har van der Put, 2015

Har van der Put (NL)

Almost crucified

2015

pencil, ink on graph paper

42 x 30 cm

www.harvanderput.com

Wim Wauman / El Lissitzky

El Lissitzky

Proun

circa 1920

mixed media on paper

20 x 25 cm

Wim Wauman (BE)

Indian Summer (The Scenery)

2014

photograph

70 x 55 cm

www.wimwauman.com

Margriet Luyten / Andrea Mantegna

Andrea Mantegna

The lamentation over the dead Christ

between circa 1475 and circa 1478

tempera on panel

66 × 81 cm

Margriet Luyten (NL)

Project Ella

2002 - 2005

gum bichromate print

65 x 50 cm

collection Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo NL

www.margrietluyten.nl

For three years I have been collecting images of the final phase of my mother’s life, who died on 28-02-2004, at 95 years of age. The photos show the deterioration, the struggle, and the submission. They were printed using the gum bichromate method; this technique suitably expresses the vulnerability, the brittleness of old age. A catalogue of this project has been published.

Margriet Luyten, 2015