This outsider not only brings up strong emotions with himself, but also with others: Paul Blanca. The self-taught photographer, born as Paul Vlaswinkel in 1958 in Amsterdam, makes his way through current commerce with his black and white and sometimes color photography. The ‘’tragic’’ is the guiding principle in his large format negatives: he believes in that one expression in that particular moment.
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Tijdens de opleiding aan de Rijksacademie in Amsterdam ontmoette Karel Appel in de jaren 1940-1943 Corneille. Ze besloten om in 1946 met elkaar naar Luik te af te reizen en daar in 1947 te exposeren. Ook maakte zij een reis naar Parijs en bij terugkeer maakten ze kennis met Constant. In 1948 exposeerden zij alle drie samen in Amsterdam.
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Tom Wesselmann is considered one of the major artists of New York Pop art, along with Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol. Best known for his 1960s series “Great American nude,” which featured flat figures in an intense palette of red, white, blue, and other patriotic colors, Wesselmann, in an effort to reject Abstract Expressionism, made collages and assemblages that incorporated everyday objects and advertising ephemera.
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Artist Walasse Ting, through various wanderings, ended up in Paris in 1952, where he encountered Cobra painters such as Karel Appel and Asger Jorn.
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Isabelle Scheltjens has been interested in art since she was young. She studied at SISA, the Antwerp City Institute for Decorative Arts and Crafts.
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Kees Salentijn’s work is characterized by diversity. According to himself, one means is not necessarily better than the other in art, as long as it is used correctly. One day Salentijn works figuratively classical or expressively abstract. The other day again childishly naive.
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The Spanish Juan Ripollés (1932) followed an evening drawing course at the Fransisco Ribalta School in Castellón, the town he grew up in.
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De gelaagde werken van kunstenaar Bram Reijnders (1974) zijn het antwoord op de vraag ‘wat is realiteit?’, die hij zichzelf stelde als reactie op de wereld om hem heen waarin reclame, politiek spel, media hypes en zelfverheerlijking via social media een vertekenend beeld geven.
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Cole Morgan behaalde in 1971 zijn Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree aan de Universiteit van New Mexico in Albuquerque waarna hij naar Europa verhuisde.
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“I see the canvas as a diary written in colors”. Martina’s works are acrylic and ink paintings on a highly textured patterned background using vintage bookpages, newspaper and sheet music, a medium she prefers due to the aged character of old paper from all over the world.