tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61831343992836261602012-02-03T12:48:36.992+01:00this blog is about art from a personal, often philosophical perspective. it is meant as much for me as for you (i hope!). please allow for some inconsistency, obstinacy, ignorance, incompetence, inaccuracy, blind spots etc on my part. friendly feedback, which may be as critical as you like, is always welcome. if you think this weblog is worthwhile, please consider linking to it.frank waaldijkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09469775707351652635noreply@blogger.comBlogger1591100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183134399283626160.post-3350091294062493892012-02-03T12:46:00.001+01:002012-02-03T12:48:36.996+01:00

On his blog Tim Gowers recently petitioned for a general boycott by scientists of Elsevier´s scientific journals.His reasons I find excellent, as do many others, which has resulted in over 3,000 scientists now signing the petition on www.thecostofknowledge.com.Let´s hope this initiative really takes off. I wrote on this subject on my visual arts blog earlier, and I find it truly heartening to see

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in an earlier post i wrote about shale gas protesting in france (protest song by my brother here).this week the french government has banned the use of fracking in shale gas exploration/development.this is extremely good news, and shows that protest can be effective.sadly, at the same time my own government has given exploration permits to a number of companies to look for shale gas even in the

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mountain blaze (own work, 2010, 80 x 200 cm, click on the image for an enlargement)this large painting is hard to photograph, i find, because it is difficult to avoid reflections of light and also because it is difficult to get the colours approximately right. still, the photo should help to explain the sense of adventure that i had while painting it. i did not know where i was going, i just

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clouds over fallow field (own work, 2000-2010, 39 x 128 cm, click on the image for an enlargement)this painting really took quite some time to finish. i worked on it (off and on) for 10 years. this is partly because i have to get used to a painting, especially when it contains something really new to me which i cannot place but which i feel is worthy of development.lately, i have found new

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sea, sky (own work, 2010, 120 x 122 cm, click on the image for an enlargement)i would like to post some fairly recent landscapes, now that i've been freed from the mathematical project `natural topology' (see one-but-previous post). however, i just realized that images will be better findable on the web if i dedicate a post to each image separately. this is more work, but it also gives

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man (own work, 1985-2005, 40 x 60 cm (approx.), click on the image for an enlargement) the above drawing (of which i have only a poor photograph, and which has been slightly altered since) was stolen from the corridor in my studio building, last june. by someone with a key, even, which makes it all the more painful. i have since removed my paitings and drawings from the corridor. obviously

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ocho infinito xxiii (cover drawing for the book `Natural Topology', own work, 2004-2011, click on the image for an enlargement)Dear readers, some of you may know that Wim Couwenberg and I started a project called `Natural topology' some years ago. The aim of the project is a) to explain intuitionism to classical mathematicians b) to simplify aspects of formal topology c) to show that

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since i'm working extremely hard to finish a fair chunk of mathematical research, i haven't been able to write on this blog.but this good news of course must be added: ai weiwei has been released on bail, although he may still face civil charges.news sources say that the attention given to this case by western media and protesters have pressured the chinese authorities to release ai weiwei. many

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one of my favourite modern artists, ai weiwei, was arrested this week in his home country china. he has been charged with economic crime, according to the LA Times. however, it is very very likely that this is just a form of censoring by the chinese government. ai weiwei has been arrested before, on trumped up charges, even leading to hospitalization.sometimes i am just so fed up with the

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the cleaning up of the millions of gallons of radioactive water at fukushima (which are a waste result of the attempts to cool the daiichi nuclear plant with water to prevent meltdown) could take decades, according to expert opinions reported in the LA Times, if it can be resolved at all.these news items have a tendency to be understated, because the nature of news is like an extreme version of

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as a follow-up to the previous post, just let me post this link to a very informative news article on shale gas development in the cévennes on french news online.in the recent posts, environmental issues feature prominently. one could ask if an art blog is the best place for these concerns, but i'm inclined to allow it (...;-)). first of all, one can't cut up the world in subjects and expect to

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(in french, by my brother kees waaldijk, a gifted musician who obviously shares my environmental concerns...)the cévennes form a beautiful natural region and national park in southern France, near avignon and nîmes. shale gas development is being increasingly criticized for its environmental impact and health hazards. in the cévennes (photo by havang).

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i am very sorry to see my very recent admonishments about the dangers of nuclear energy viz. natural disasters proved true by the completely dreadful earthquake which occurred last week in japan. i hope the people there will manage to contain the damage, and overcome this terrible adversity.i also hope this will finally set people thinking about our completely irresponsible way of creating

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yesterday was a strange day...you might remember that just a month ago i proudly posted that my blog had had 100,000 visits...in total, over its lifespan of almost 3 yrs.however, yesterday i had over 60,000 visits (and today so far another 15,000) on one day. all due to the fact that google celebrated the birthday of constantin brâncuşi (19 february 1876). and yes, i posted a few nice photographs

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this blog serves multiple purposes, which sometimes does not make for very consistent threads. the thread on nuclear energy has been served well enough, but a new thread (self-reference in art and other areas) will have to wait a little, since i also want to put up some fairly recent drawings...some of them containing a fair amount of self-reference...[and with real difficulty in getting the true

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to finish the thread, there is also a (in my eyes) disturbing sculpture `nuclear energy' by henry moore, which was commissioned to mark the place where the first makeshift nuclear reactor was realized in chicago (chicago pile-1). the sculpture was erected in 1967 at the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the splitting of the atom on the grounds by enrico fermi on december 2, 1942.henry moore,

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title says it all. this post is self-fulfilling ;-) since it is the 20th post of january, and in 2010 there were only 19 posts on this blog. just to show you how empty self-reference can be...although in the foundations of mathematics, self-reference is a profound tool. kurt gödel's incompleteness theorems hinge on the possibility of encoding mathematical statements about our number system in

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[continued from the previous post]apart from its ominous content, i found michael madsen's documentary `into eternity' quite artistic, showing people in a natural setting, answering well-structured questions, but at the same time painting a contradictory canvas of the issue and human arrogance/insecurity at the same time.still, i was even more triggered by one of the main problems posed in the

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last week i saw a documentary by michael madsen called `into eternity'. let me cite from wikipedia:Into Eternity is a feature documentary film directed by Michael Madsen.[1] It follows the digging and pre-implementation of the Onkalo nuclear waste repository in Olkiluoto, Finland. Director Michael Madsen is questioning Onkalo's intended eternal existence, addressing a remotely future audience.

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the showing of my paintings in the hogeschool arnhem nijmegen (han) is slightly shortened, the paintings will be on show until 8 february, so the last day to see them is monday 7 february.clouds over fallow field (own work 2000-2010, click on the image for an enlargement)

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ok, just a short intermezzo, because google happened to mention his birthday (19 january 1839). but also because paul cézanne is one of the first western artists, if not the first, to truly question the relation between what we see and what we think we see and what we think is reality...this questioning is of scientific nature in my eyes, and finds its counterpart in neuroscience, but also in

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but let's forget about the economic importance of art and art education. this importance should be evident to anyone who ... has had enough education to understand the importance of education...although this maybe isn't dependent on how much education one gets. many of our current political `leaders' have had quite a lot of education...but of what type, one cannot fail to wonder.that is where art

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[to continue our discussion: art and art education is important for economic development] the first reason why art and art education are economically important was given already by looking at the world of design, and the importance of colour, form, perception for this discipline.a second reason can be found on a more profound level. it turns out that much of our thinking is `visual'. we `see'

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[continued from previous post]so if we adopt the utilitarian viewpoint, then clearly art is for the benefit of mankind.in my not so humble opinion (imnsho): if the dutch political party pvv wants to state that `art is a leftist hobby', they really show to understand so little of what the world needs that they should be disqualified by voters as quickly as possible.but -and now i'm coming back to

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you probably don't remember me posing that question around new year's day...and you certainly won't expect me to answer it i hope ;-) !!but alright, perhaps it is interesting to elaborate a little on this question `what is art for?'. the question smacks a little of utilitarianism (excerpt from wikipedia below:)Utilitarianism (also: utilism) is the idea that the moral worth of an action is

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nostalgic cityscape (own work, partly after kokoschka, 2010, click on the image for an enlargement)the original inspiration came from a painting of the charles' bridge in prague by kokoschka (no good reproductions available on the web, but see below for an impression, you can see the paintings don't really resemble a lot, but the composition is largely based on a cut-out from kokoschka's

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welcome to my world (digital self-portrait 2011, click on the image for an enlargement)having a severe cold has the benefit (? i hope...) of forcing me to keep posting on this blog...the above self-portrait appeals to me for various reasons, one of them being that i really enjoy what photoshop has to offer in terms of enhancement of an original image. i know there are purists who think that this

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[oh well, i probably should have added what follows next to the previous post, but it would have become so terribly long.]one thing certainly strikes me: last year's theme `the monarchy' certainly struck home a lot more than this year's theme `ode to paper'. in fact, looking at the designs which were pitched, the first thing that glares at us is that so many of last year's designs were so

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you really should read the previous post first, if you wish to understand the designs in this post...but one element needs to be added: the colour orange is our national colour, because...of prince william of orange, who fought against the spanish rule in the 16th century. since then, our monarchs, who only vaguely descend from this william, are called `de oranjes' (the orange ones). so you

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oh well, i'm still not done. in 2010 i also participated in the vpro cover design contest, the theme then was: `monarchy'. but, as was explicitly stated, the main reason for this theme was the new television series to be aired by the vpro, called `bernhard, scoundrel of orange' (`bernhard, schavuit van oranje') about the life of prince bernhard, husband of our former queen juliana.prince bernhard

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well, not so much perhaps when compared to really well-visited sites, but surprising to me nonetheless! and i'm glad that what i put up here reaches a lot of people (although i get little feedback as to what they think of it ;-)), this is added motivation (although i would write for a few people just as well, but it does give the feeling that the (relatively new) internet really gives a new

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i would like to describe where the previous design came from (let me repeat it below for best reading, design for the january 2007 vpro cover, click on the image for a large enlargement)some elements:in 1982 in my final year in high school i made a cynical postcard `greetings from kalkar'. at the time there were plans for a nuclear plant in kalkar, and i was very much against. the card was meant

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so in this thread (art in our merchant society, vpro cover competition, digital design) i would like to put up a design i made a few years back for the vpro cover competition. the theme given was: `new energy' and the explanation talked about the dilemmas facing our society with regard to dwindling traditional energy supplies (oil, gas, coal). any design featuring this theme and /or this dilemma

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[see also previous post! oh well, i'm careening a bit between two subjects (see the ambiguous title), sorry]marcel klein's design for the vpro cover competition (see previous post, not nominated by the jury - i take it for granted neither marcel nor vpro will mind my putting up this design on my blog, if so just let me know and i will remove it and replace it with just the link). i like it for a

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every year, the dutch broadcasting corporation vpro holds an open design competition for the cover of its first magazine of the new year.a very inspiring idea!!and one should really look at all the designs that people make, they are put on the vpro's website for cover 1. it is very inspiring to see what is being made by young and old, professional and non-professional.of course, i would'nt be

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(click on the image for an enlargement)`zin' is an essentially untranslatable dutch word, it means as many things as: 1. sense 2. meaning 3. mind 4. point 5. spirit 6. feeling 7. signification 8. inclination 9. gusto

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tyres (own work 2008, click on the image for an enlargement)the thing is: imnsho an artist needs to receive inspiration from anywhere, everywhere. our encounter with our world (`reality') is a complex puzzle, ever changing, and somehow it is the artist's job to create meaningful interpretation, commentary, beauty, transcendentality even. pretty ambitious, really, so perhaps no wonder this often

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my fellow artist and friend ralf kwaaknijd has a site on saatchi online (i didn't hear him complaining about their terms of use, but anyway these terms have been changed for the better now), and three weeks ago he was picked out by well-known conservator and lecturer ben street as one of 10 artists of the week on saatchi online. good for ralf, but then again he has quite an impressive bio, having

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cinema (own work 2008-2010, click on the image for an enlargement)dark sky, polder (own work 2010, click on the image for an enlargement)liège 1985 (own work 2008, click on the image for an enlargement)still life with kiwi (own work 2008-2010, click on the image for an enlargement)&&&&&&anyway, one point is: without photoshop i would never have been able to make these pictures. the analog

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digital self portrait (own work 2008, click on the image for an enlargement)[this is actually the picture i use for my profile on blogger...ok, i know it's a little over the top but...it's got something which is really me, too]digital self portrait as a photographer (own work 2007, click on the image for a slight enlargement)you can see the heavy use of photoshop...but it opens new possibilities.

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digital self portrait (own work 2010, click on the image for an enlargement).i know, no relation to the previous post. but i wish to write more frequently, and there are still quite some subjects to tackle, like the possibilities of photoshop. an artist can use up multiple lives trying to master all the techniques available nowadays. nonetheless, visual training, or perhaps more specifically

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portrait of st. frances drawing, mixed media on paper (own work 2010, 20 x 30 cm, click on the image for an enlargement).compared to the later work in the 20 november post, this one is more direct, less refined, but that is not to say less expressive. [disclaimer: drawings' colours and fine details are hard to photograph]this drawing can also still be considered a drainting...but has more obvious

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wow, i'm actually flabbergasted! saatchi online has changed its terms of use, on 19 november. very recently, and almost directly after i complained about it on this blog. (i also explained in my mail to them why i preferred deleting my account to accepting their terms, but this was a short explanation, and their reaction was non-committal).their old terms:License to User Submissions. You may

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some more drawings, without too much commentary (today, maybe i'll add something more later on).[[repeated from a previous post: i'm always drawing...drawing to me is like poetry, and it is definitely a continuous source which pours over to painting. enough said, i'm just going to put up some pictures. (you can click on them for larger images.).by the way, i invariably find drawings to be

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i recently found out that my artist account on saatchi gallery's website was moved to something new called `saatchi online'.when i tried to login and edit some of my works, i found i had to agree to the terms of use, including:License to User Submissions. You may submit content (including Works) for use and display on the Website ("User Submissions"). You grant Saatchi a non-exclusive, worldwide,

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lately i went to see two exhibitions in rotterdam: works of edvard munch in the kunsthal and works of kees van dongen in museum boymans van beuningen. the two museums are a walking distance apart, so the combination is not that hard.however, the exhibitions themselves were mostly a disappointment. and expensive to visit too.i counted 5 or 6 paintings by van dongen that for me showed real artistic

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clouds over cornfield, 2010 (50 x 152 cm)exhibition of paintings 1 september t/m 28 feb 2011hogeschool arnhem nijmegenkapittelweg 33 nijmegengang C.00dear all,the next 6 months i will show 15 paintings in hallway C.00 of the HANbuilding on the kapittelweg, nijmegen, 5 minutes walking from station nijmegen heijendaal. mostly recent work, 6 paintings have not been shown earlier.you are welcome to

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i'm always drawing. but drawing remains an undervalued art form. invariably, for exhibitions, paintings and sculptures are favoured. still, drawing to me is like poetry, and it is definitely a continuous source which pours over to painting. enough said, i'm just going to put up some pictures. (you can click on them for larger images.).by the way, i invariably find drawings to be difficult to

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oh very well, so i was wrong. i should have said `all referential art is conceptual' or something like that. or (anyway, most interestingly): `all figurative art is conceptual'.and still that would miss the mark of accuracy, since a substantial part of art is about the direct (mostly visual) experience. which is not always referential i believe (although there might be scientific debate on how

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once again (like in `conceptual art vs. beauty') the title says it all. but my students still liked me to explain what i mean with:all art is conceptualoh very well. i'll try to explain what i mean, even though the nature of the postmodern fashion of vagueness and quasi-profundity is such that one doesn't of course explain anything about quasi-profound statements, one just adds to them with new

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so, let's forget a moment about conceptual art...even though all art in a way is conceptual imnsho (in my not so humble opinion), which i'll comment on later.more interesting perhaps to talk about hard-won beauty.why not simply beauty, why this `hard-won' adjective?to me, it is what distinguishes great art. when i'm walking in the forest, i come across all sorts of plants and trees which i find

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it is easier to criticize than to create, i believe. but since i am an artist myself, creating is not my problem, although it can be arduous and painstaking at times.still, criticizing other artists is not my favourite pastime. i prefer to criticize museums, galleries, popular media, society, god, the world, the moon, the climate, my family (in private), etc...even when i do not really appreciate

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ok, i admit it, the previous post was another cheap stab at conceptual art. yet the title does say it all, doesn't it?the thing is, i'm feeling overbombarded with conceptual art lately. and too much of too much seldom does much for me. another issue that i'm having with conceptual art lately is that it really is all too easy to create something with a superficially semi-DEEP MEANING, if you know

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conceptual artvs.beauty

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la gomera(2009 ~ 80 x 110 cm ~ acrylic and ink on canvas)i'm having a small exhibition in the central library of nijmegen. this, plus teaching art at the unit-academy in nijmegen and writing a blog about that as well, plus flu...have kept me from posting here.anyway, here is an invitation, welcome all:1-31 march 2010 paintings & sculptures central library nijmegen mariënburg 29 nijmegen opening

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i'm just putting up some recent drawings. not too much commentary from me, but i will be happy with feedback. don't be surprised to see some outsiderness...i'm in that dark place, waiting for you own work ~ 2009 ~ 35 x 50 cm ~ mixed media on paper; right-mouseclick on `view image' for a better view; man, hands own work ~ 2009 ~ 35 x 50 cm ~ mixed media on paper; right-mouseclick on `view image'

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much as i would like to be able to find the time to keep up this blog in a steady flow of thought, this turns out to be an illusion. the price to pay for having too much projects in my head.snippets is what i'll be writing, just until my other blog `trijntje fop gaat op de schop' (freely translated `trijntje fop goes art, revised') is finished (see this older post on trijntje fop). and i also

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perhaps i will launch a series of posts on outsider art, which frequently touches me. but the more direct reason for this post is my attraction to artists who paint some feeling of `outsiderness', frequently their own, frequently indirect - but how can one paint the feeling of being an outsider, if one does not feel this (or has not felt it) inside?i recently finished a drawing which i started

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refugee father & child own work ~ 2006-2009 ~ 120 x 200 cm ~ acrylic on canvasalthough i have difficulty photographing the colours adequately (they are more brilliant, especially some of the yellow) the painting speaks for itself, i believe. but perhaps i could add a few words on the themes which drove me to this work.&&&&&&&images of father & child are relatively rare in art. i don't think that

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yesterday we went to see the show intimate work of video artist bill viola, in museum de pont, tilburg (netherlands).a bit to my surprise -since i generally have difficulty immersing myself in video art-i found it really interesting, and i watched most of the works from beginning to end.my favourites were small saints, acceptance and the last angel. in small saints we see 6 small screens, each

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beauty is in the eye of the beholder...and there is -my grumblings aside- still a lot of beauty to be discovered in art, and in contemporary art.for me personally however, i find that i seldom have this breathtaking experience anymore, that i sometimes had when younger, on encountering some (for me) extraordinary piece of art.not that i have lost the experience altogether, it just has become

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last night i saw the documentary the great contemporary art bubble (for a trailer see here on youtube by ben lewis.lewis tells an interesting story, which clearly touches on many the same issues regarding money & art as this blog.i'm not in a position to verify, understand or even judge all the financial mechanisms behind contemporary art. what nonetheless becomes clear is that the contemporary

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on a more positive note (as compared to my usual rants against commercialism): i came across this wonderful sculpture in nijmegen:unknown-to-me street artist, unknown-to-me titleconstructed strangely against the remaining wall of a torn down house, the sculpture just is. i couldn't find any reference to indicate either maker or title. though it struck me as simple fun from a sculptural point of

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to continue from the previous post, i remember writing in my comment last year, that the borders between art and entertainment are fading rapidly.and, the applause machine for this development is being cranked to the highest level. only natural, when one understands the mechanisms behind this. these mechanisms are many and varying in nature.but a main ingredient is that smart marketing of a

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last year i wrote this about a relatively new initiative in the netherlands called `kunstweek' (art week):since about 5 yrs in the netherlands there is an initiative `kunstweek' (art week), which more or less out of the blue claims an election of `dutch artist of the year' (kunstenaar van het jaar).of course, this has to be a joint effort from `public' (read internet) and `experts'. this year's

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eve and adam separated by the roots of knowledge (own work, 2009, 21 x 30 cm, mixed media on paper)just to keep the blog rolling a bit, one of today's drawings. the colours not totally accurate, perhaps i should try my old canon, see if it captures the colours better [have done so now, it is indeed a bit better].this separation of woman and man sometimes really bugs me. it even seems totally

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looked for horse figurines on the web, and came across these right away:horse figurines from mali (ceramic, national museum of mali, period unknown, 15-30 cm)well. if i ever needed some confirmation that something african seeped into my sculpture...! and aren't they just lovely?

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as promised somewhere in an earlier post, i'm putting up some pictures of a horse statuette -now owned by a friend and recently loaned to me for a showing in st. anthonis- which i made around 2001, and which sparked my practice of painting sculptures.(looking at the pictures now, i'm reminded that of my earlier feelings that this figurine would look good on a larger scale also.)horse (own work ~

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ralf kwaaknijd, flamingo man (45 x 10 x 10 cm, wood & flamingo feather, 2009)ok, one might ask, what is art appropriation? well, see wikipedia: In the [(visual arts)], to appropriate something means adopting, borrowing, recycling or sampling aspects (or the entire form) of man made visual culture. The Oxford English Dictionary defines appropriation in relation to art as 'the practice or technique

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yes i have a new studio, for painting! i'm really happy with it. i still have a small studio in the back of our garden, but we will be using it as a small home office for the next year or so. (the new studio is temporary, might also last two years though).southern light...supposedly not the best, but with a wonderful skylight, and on the first floor with unobstructed windows...quiet atmosphere,

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see the one-but-previous post. [and see -of course- the wikipedia entry on street art.]if you take the time to view the video, you might come across some very intriguing art works. i'm often amazed at what i see on the street. apart from the obvious artistry, there's a lot of hard work and dedication going into many of these works.i don't mean this as a general tribute to every tag and

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mary & jesus on the road to damascus (own work, 21 x 30 cm, mixed media on paper, 2008)coming from a christian culture, which produced a lot of beautiful art works centered around mary and jesus (my favourites especially are the mare de déu sculptures from catalunya), i find myself creating art works which draw on that tradition. they should not be seen as religious - i'm personally not a fan of

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i ain't gonna say shit dude. just click the flick.

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trees, hills (own work, 80 x 110 cm, acrylic and ink on canvas, 2009)just a new painting, which i'll be showing in an upcoming short exhibition. i also managed to take some pictures of a statuette which i borrowed back from the owner, i think i might put them up also.see previous two posts: my trijntje-fop-blog is still taking up most of my writing energy, sorry. i managed to revise around 55 of

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on a bonobo and a chimpanzeedid artist yoko bonobocompletely out of mikadoconstruct for hiroshige's lobster`jacuzzi with yakuza mobster'?the ape clams up mysteriouslybut still complains imperiously`they never take me seriously'chimp saatchi: `who knows? years agoshe built in downtown tokyoher christ in tub with giorgiocommitting in this spiritoartistic harachirico' utagawa hiroshige, 2 shrimp

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sorry to not have posted any more recently. there was a reason, pretty predictable: i'm writing on another blog called trijntje fop gaat op de schop. a crazy undertaking, to be honest. mostly silly rhymes, mostly in dutch, mostly about art, in a style called `trijntje fop'trijntje fop is a nom de plume of the dutch poet kees stip (1913-2001). the name is currently used to describe light poetry

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ok. having posted the previous painting wheat field under thunderclouds i cannot leave out its famous sibling:vincent van gogh, wheat field with crows (1890)van gogh's works were not the fashion during his lifetime. he could not sell his paintings (i believe he sold just one painting during his life), but other artists recognized his genius. after his death, his paintings quickly gained

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frequently i find myself being old-fashioned. i suppose it has to do with my distaste of fashion. distaste of fashion? yes, you read correctly.it's not that i dislike nice clothes, or that i dislike contemporary creativity. i dislike the enormous marketing component, the money machine which drives our fashions. not only in clothing, but also very prominently in contemporary art.with the

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entombment 10 (own work, 2006, 70 x 50 cm, inspired by a rembrandt drawing)entombment 11 (own work, 2006, 70 x 50 cm, inspired by a rembrandt drawing)above are the last two drawings in the series, no further comment on them. i hope to have brought readers some insight in how works develop over time, and how old masters inspire. now it's time for other subjects.

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entombment 8 (own work, 2006, inspired by a rembrandt drawing)continuing from the previous post. from here on i feel the theme has reached the level that i'm looking for. detail below:entombment 8 (detail, own work, 2006, inspired by a rembrandt drawing)the next drawing really comes from the subconscious levels, i honestly have no idea how this type of drawing comes into existence, it just

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entombment 5 (own work, 2006, inspired by a rembrandt drawing)continuing from the previous post. it is probably more prudent from the marketing perspective to not show less-than-perfect studies, but so what. i thought it might be interesting to show a bit how themes develop, and in all my themes there are a fair percentage of works that don't `work' enough on the levels in which i'm

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entombment 2 (own work, 2006, inspired by a rembrandt drawing)the second drawing. somehow things are more charged, i feel. but it's hard to analyze for me. the third and fourth drawing:entombment 3 (own work, 2006, inspired by a rembrandt drawing)entombment 4 (own work, 2006, inspired by a rembrandt drawing)to be honest, i considered and still consider these drawings as first steps. i seldom work

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entombment 1 (own work, 2006, inspired by a rembrandt drawing)this is the first drawing i started with. no further comment.

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rembrandt van rijn, entombment (photoshop alteration)the famous-artist-or-not question: i wrote about it earlier, in the context of quality and art. to illustrate some points regarding this question, i made the above photoshop alteration of the rembrandt drawing `entombment' (see previous post for the unaltered version) and posted it on a dutch art forum in the category `own work'. by posting it

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entombment ix (own work, 2006, 30 x 40 cm, mixed media on paper)a drawing by rembrandt, titled entombment, provided the starting point for a modest series of drawings around the theme of death of a beloved.i will give more details on this starting point and subsequent genesis later. first the original drawing by rembrandt:rembrandt van rijn, entombment

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dear visitors to this blog and my artist's website: today it seems that picasa webalbum service is not running smoothly.many of my pictures are loaded from my picasa albums, therefore you may experience some problems with viewing.i hope google soon fixes the problem, kindly visit again later.

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just let me be the dog at your party (own work, 2008, 21 x 30 cm, mixed media on paper)been sick for days with a heavy cold. nothing to do but lie in bed, write posts on this blog and...yesterday's drawing.

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so just a short note. it turns out i've missed a tv programme on the english channel 4 called `the mona lisa curse'.really a shame i missed it, in the programme art critic robert hughes denounces the contemporary art scene in a clearcut way, it seems. i've tried to find videos on the web, to no avail.a taste of the well-received programme can be found in a hughes' article in the guardian.i'm

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just yesterday i happened upon a recent video message (2 actually) sent out to the world by sotheby's - you know, the art auction house. the first video is called `contemporary art market- a candid view from the inside'. (the second video is the most recent private viewing video for the auction of 11 november 2008, http://www.sothebys.com/video/privateview/N08489/index.html)well.deep sigh.i

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rembrandt van rijn, the jewish bride (around 1667)rembrandt van rijn, the jewish bride (detail)an interesting site on rembrandt's technique: northern light studio.

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a short post today about thin film transistor liquid crystal display monitors (tft monitors).the thing is, almost everywhere i go, i see this type of flat screen monitor being used. but when i view my artist's site on such a tft monitor, it all looks awry. the colours and lighting of especially paintings and drawings are horribly distorted, making many works seem as if they are simply bleached

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ralf kwaaknijd, man woman ii (2008, polystyrene on wood)so let's connect the two running themes (postpostmodernism & man-woman spirituality) for a moment, returning once again to dutch visual artist ralf kwaaknijd. kwaaknijd obviously kicks against the ruling postmodern art structures with this work, which is so small that one must squat to see it properly. (an ironic reference to the in

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meeting on the quai of the stream of subconsciousness -- with passerby walking dog, seagull, trees and cloud of unknowingness (own work, 2008, 21 x 30 cm, mixed media on paper)yeah, today's drawing...and don't even have the time to comment on it. sorry. maybe sunday.

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park encounter iii (own work, 2005, 15 x 24 cm, mixed media on paper)just to keep the blog rolling a bit...i would like to do `a drawing a day' also, but i find that all this internet activity costs an amazing amount of energy, which i frequently don't have.above a rather shy encounter...man woman noticing but not really acknowledging each other, although aware that each is aware of the other...

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park encounter iv (own work, 2008, 20 x 30 cm, mixed media on paper)well, not to lose the thread on spirituality, man and woman altogether in the storm of (post)postmodernism...much of the famous art on man & woman seems to center around sexuality (i think i will visit sexuality also specifically, somewhere to come on this blog). but for me `woman & man' is even more reflective of a certain

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francis bacon, study for a bullfight no 1 first version perhaps i should start by saying that various sources have confirmed me as being very `postmodern' in my opinions and even in my artwork. this could explain why i compare postmodernism to puberty: i never really got over puberty either, but life goes on anyway. one cannot undo puberty, likewise i feel we cannot undo postmodernism. because

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mark rothko, magenta, black, green on orange the wikipedia entry on postpostmodernism suggests (to me) a wide variety of interpretations, most having to do with the idea that postmodernism is somehow past its prime.what strikes me from my personal perspective is that there are but a handful of artists from the postmodern period whose work really gets to me - to be precise: there are many

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ok. time to tackle some art philosophy again, just for the fun of it, but perhaps even more because i promise(d) to do so in the subtitle of this blog.i'm intrigued by the word `postpostmodernism', which sprang in mind easily to describe a certain feeling i have about postmodernism. what i do in such a case of spontaneous word genesis is to google up `postpostmodernism' and to see that -like many

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