A human wordsmith, Pat Andrea (1942) is an internationally acclaimed master painter and one of the most prominent figures in European realism and new figurative iconography.
In his 40-year career, his work has been showcased in hundreds of exhibitions, including five retrospectives. It has been featured in some of the most prestigious museum collections in the world, such as MOMA (New York), Centre Georges-Pompidou (Paris), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires), and the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam).
Born in The Hague in 1942, Andrea studied at the city’s Royal Academy of Art under Co Westerik. He co-founded the ABN Group with Walter Nobbe and Peter Blokhuis, known as the New Hague School, and held his first solo exhibition in 1965. In 1979, he was selected by art critic Jean Clair to participate in Nouvelle Subjectivité at the Palace of Fine Arts in Brussels, alongside artists like David Hockney, RB Kitaj, and Sam Szafran. Andrea served as a professor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts in Paris from 1998 to 2007, and currently resides and works in Buenos Aires and Paris.
In his paintings, classical quality meets grim neo-expressionism as sexuality, fear, and desire seamlessly intertwine to produce images that are both playful and intensely disturbing. One-act dramas of everyday human emotions, Andrea’s creations delve into eroticism and violence through raw yet delicate depictions of men and women.
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