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Antoni Tapies (continued)

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The abstract paintings of Spanish artist Antoni Tàpies brimmed with symbolism. Tàpies firmly believed that it was up to the viewer to make their own associations with the art. Even the cross, an image frequently featured in his works, held no specific meaning in his eyes. In 1984, Edy de Wilde selected Tàpies’ work to be included in the ‘Grande Parade’ exhibition. Among the pieces displayed were ‘Jambre et croix rouge’ (1982) and ‘Vernis avec formes noires’ (1982), both featuring crosses. Tàpies’ art demonstrated the loss of the representational function in modern art. Nature appeared in a different light, conveyed through abstract images, with each piece evoking a different reaction – some had everything to say, while others nothing at all.

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Niele Toroni (continued)

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Niele Toroni, a contemporary Swiss artist, is renowned for his radical abstraction in painting. As a pictorial minimalist, he is a member of the B.M.P.T. founded in 1967 alongside Daniel Buren, Olivier Mosset, and Michel Parmentier. Since 1966, Toroni has employed a unique painting method, using a flat brush that is 50 mm wide to apply regular 30 cm intervals on a given surface, never deviating from this established routine. However, to limit Toroni’s artwork to a single statement would be to overlook its multifaceted deployment. The painter’s intention is to convey a consistent message through an array of varying pictorial events. In this sense, Toroni’s technique inherently opposes a conceptual approach, as the goal of conceptual art is to expose itself as a purely linguistic statement.

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Marjolein Bastin (continued)

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Marjolein Bastin-uit den Bogaard (1943) is a Dutch illustrator and artist, renowned for her depictions of nature, including animals and plants. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Arnhem, where she met her husband Gaston Bastin. From 1960-1965, she worked for various advertising agencies and publishers. Marjolein and Gaston Bastin have a daughter, Sanna, born in 1973, and a son, Mischa, born in 1974. She has two granddaughters: Merel and Roos. Marjolein Bastin has lived in various places, such as Missouri, the Cayman Islands, the Veluwe, Ameland, and Switzerland, all of which have been sources of inspiration for her work. She currently resides in Wekerom.

Since 1974, Marjolein Bastin has been working for the weekly magazine Libelle, where she had her own nature page from 1980 onwards, accompanied by her character ‘Vera de Muis.’ She also creates watercolors. Her drawings appear in books and on various products, such as calendars, agendas, cards, pottery, and embroidery kits, among others, for the American company Hallmark. She has also contributed to various nature books. In 1993, her beautiful drawing of lungwort graced the cover of a thesis by her namesake, Marjolein Drent.

She has created drawings of ducklings for the ild care foundation (‘i love ducklings’), which launched a new campaign in 2011. The foundation hopes to gain more recognition with her support.

Her original works have been exhibited, among others, at the Nature Center Ameland and the Noord Brabants Museum in Den Bosch. For the artist, the exhibition was a moment of recognition. ‘The pinnacle of my work. Very touching and unexpected.www.ftn-books.com has a large selection of books by Marjolein Bastin.

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Yves Klein (continued)

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Yves Klein imitation The French painter Yves Klein was one of the founders of the artists’ movement Nouveau Réalisme, which was founded in his house. Yves Klein did not receive any art education. He became famous for his blue monochrome paintings, which he first exhibited in galleries in Milan and Paris in 1957.
International Klein Blue
In 1956 he exhibited a number of monochrome paintings. At this time he decided to only use the color blue from then on. This color was called ‘International Klein Blue’ (IKB) by Klein. The artist is said to have been searching for this color for years. He would eventually find it by adding the fixative Rhodopas to ultramarine blue. This blue became his trademark. He first showed these works in 1957 at Galerie Apollinaire in Milan and Galerie Iris Clert in Paris.
Education
Yves Klein was born on April 28, 1928 in Nice. He was the son of the artist couple Fred Klein and Marie Raymond. After high school, he briefly attended the National Maritime School. He then studied at the School of Oriental Languages from 1944 to 1946. Klein did a bit of everything. He viewed his life as a work of art in itself. During these years he met Arman and Claude Pascal.
Happenings
In the early sixties, he used blue-painted models to make prints on the canvas. This ‘painting’ took place during happenings, with a band playing music. Yves Klein exhibited in Paris, Düsseldorf, London, and the United States. In 1957, he released 1001 blue balloons at the opening of an exhibition.

Bij een andere opening kregen de bezoekers aan de galerie een drankje, waardoor na afloop hun urine blauw kleurde.

Op 21 januari 1962 trouwde Yves Klein met de kunstenares Rotraut Uecker, de zus van kunstenaar Günther Uecker, die lid was van de kunstenaarsgroep Zero. Klein kreeg in mei 1962 een hartaanval tijdens het filmfestival van Cannes. Later werd hij nog twee keer door een aanval getroffen. Yves Klein overleed op 6 juni 1962 op 34-jarige leeftijd in Parijs aan de gevolgen van deze hartproblemen. Enkele maanden later werd zijn zoon Yves Armand geboren.

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Richard Serra (continued)

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Richard Serra is a sculptor and video artist. Initially, he pursued a degree in English literature. To support himself financially, he worked as a student in a local steel factory. These experiences would have a decisive impact.

In 1961, Serra studied art at Yale University (New Haven). He was initially interested in painting. After becoming friends with composer Philip Glass in Paris, he realized that his future lay in sculpture. He returned to the United States, settled in New York, and in the period of 1966-1967, created unconventional works with rubber and neon tubing.

His circle of friends expanded to include artists such as Steve Reich, Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, Walter De Maria, and Eva Hesse. Robert Smithson had a major influence on his choice for environmental art and land art.

Serra is considered a minimalist and creator of land art. He became known for his monumental works of corten steel. He has grown to become one of the most influential contemporary American sculptors and minimalists. Serra’s largest work in corten steel is “The Matter of Time,” which can be seen at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. It includes eight installations with fifty elements, including ellipses, circles, and spirals.

Many collections and museums have included Serra’s works. In the Netherlands, his works can be seen in Maastricht (Bonnefantenmuseum), Otterlo (Kröller-Müller Museum), Rotterdam (Boijmans Van Beuningen), Amsterdam (Stedelijk Museum), Tilburg (De Pont), and Wassenaar (Voorlinden).

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Pierre Soulages (continued)

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He is the artist who invented OUTRENOIR

The artist, who prefers to work in a flat manner, relocated to ‘outrenoir’ in 1979. While toiling away on a piece completely covered in thick black, Soulages realizes that he has just taken a step forward by striating it. It was simply pure black pigment, yet it was able to bring forth light.

“My paint can is black. I found myself in an atmosphere beyond darkness. But what matters is the light, which is scattered by reflections, it is about how the reflections modify the light.”
Pierre Soulages

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Inez van Lamsweerde (continued)

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Inez van Lamsweerde, born on September 25, 1963 in Amsterdam, is a Dutch art photographer, renowned for her digitally manipulated photos. Together with her husband Vinoodh Matadin, she creates numerous art pieces that blend fashion photography and art. The two met at the Akademie Vogue, where they both studied clothing design. However, after two years, Inez van Lamsweerde left the school to pursue further studies at the Rietveld Academie, focusing on photography. But she still had a passion for fashion and incorporated it into her photography. Her photos are razor-sharp and can be described as perfect. Every aspect of the photo is precisely crafted and carefully thought out. Inez van Lamsweerde’s current photos include a combination of fashion and art photography. She works with many well-known brands and photographs models in the traditional style seen in fashion magazines, which is the fashion photography element. However, the use of light and contours in her work makes it appreciated by lovers of art photography as well.

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James Rosenquist (continued)

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Upon completing his education in the arts, James Rosenquist made a living by painting billboards. This seems to have been a crucial source of inspiration for his artistry. Rosenquist’s main focus was on large-scale paintings, which combined images from popular culture, such as advertising and pop music. As a result, his work is established as one of the key components in the evolution of Pop Art in the 1960s in the United States. However, unlike other Pop Art artists, Rosenquist’s creations often possess a deeper, political significance.

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Peter Halley (continued)

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Hailing from the bustling city of New York in the year 1953, Halley has gained recognition for his masterful geometric paintings.

For a span of more than twenty-five years, the geometric paintings of Peter Halley have embarked on a complex game, aptly dubbed as “prisons” and “cells”, offering a reflection of the ever-growing prevalence of geometry in the social sphere. Drawing inspiration from New York’s gridded urban layout and the loneliness experienced by individuals within it, he envisions geometric shapes as barred prison cells, connected to the outside world solely through electronic means of communication. Alongside being an accomplished author, Halley also imparted his knowledge to students while honing his skills in painting and printmaking at Yale University’s School of the Arts from 2002 to 2011. Currently, he resides and continues to create in the vibrant city of New York.

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Klaas Gubbels (continued)

When creating his paintings, Gubbels assigns an almost character-like personality to the coffee pot – which he usually refers to as a kettle. It can be seen sitting on a chair at a table or meeting other brightly colored kettles within the two-dimensional space of the canvas. The physical characteristics of the coffee pot vary: a double handle, heart-shaped, multiple spouts, and even legs. Gubbels states that he wants to break the monotony. Hence, the subject matter remains the same, yet the resulting work is always different. Gubbels explains it as follows when talking about his series of “Super boring still lifes”: “I purposely want to turn the dullness around. So that the boredom becomes something.”

Gubbels carefully considers what to erase and what to leave in. He ponders whether or not to remove the charcoal lines that sometimes run alongside the outlines of the painted shapes. He is not interested in making a painting more aesthetically pleasing. “Stupid, strict rules” – in Gubbels’ own words – hold him back from doing so. A painting should remain as it is; aesthetics should not be a guiding principle.

The limited number of subjects that Gubbels uses as a starting point consist mainly of a table, coffee pot, chair, cup, and occasionally a bottle or funnel. They are sometimes painted in bright blue or flaming red, and other times in more subdued shades of gray.

Aside from paintings, Gubbels also creates prints and sculptures. He studied at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam (1951-1952) and continued his education at the art academy in Arnhem (1952-1958). Exhibitions of his work have been shown at Museum Arnhem, Paleis Soestdijk (Baarn), and Livingstone Gallery (The Hague), among others.

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