Saturday 26 September 2020

Phillip Allen / Frans Hals

 




Frans Hals

Banquet of the officers of the Calivermen Civic Guard

1627

oil on canvas

183 x 266,5 cm

Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem NL

 

 



For a number of years now I've been fascinated by Frans Hals collective portraits of Civic Guards etc. These pictorial slices of society I find formally fascinating and never tire looking at them.

 

Phillip Allen, 2020





Phillip Allen (UK)

Deepdrippings (Solar quiet version)

2016

oil on board

153 x 122 cm

www.phillipallenartist.com 

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Saturday 12 September 2020

Michel Hoogervorst / Lucian Freud



Lucian Freud

Interior at Paddington 

1951

oil on canvas

152,4 x 114,3 cm

Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK


 

 

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real. 

Lucian Freud

 

This painting of Lucian Freud intrigued me when I was young, his whole oeuvre still does.

Michel Hoogervorst, 2020



 


Michel Hoogervorst (NL)

Untitled 

2020

acrylic and fineliner on canvas

220 x 160 cm

www.michelhoogervorst.nl

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