Etiket: paintings
Paintings, anecdotes and a book: two cousins pay their personal tribute to the Tour de France
When it became known that the final time trial of the Tour de France would take place on July 23 in Rocamadour, France, Werner Van Hoyland (70) and Frans Vandamme…
Colossal drawings, prints and paintings make it clear that ‘size matters’ ★★★★☆
The enormous size of the (art) works shown at the exhibition XXL paper did not always serve an artistic purpose, but is often a feast for the eyes. Rutger PontzenJuly…
Sam Gilliam (1933 – 2022) was a pioneer of American abstract painting with his ‘drape paintings’
Sam Gilliam in his studio in 2018, the year in which one of his canvases was auctioned for 2 million euros.Image ANP Is it a painting? Or a sculpture? Sam…
Kees (77) recreates Van Gogh paintings so that we can learn something from them
“Vincent van Gogh made art out of total misery”, Van Gogh enthusiast Kees Rovers from Nuenen tells in his garden. “My grandchildren don’t know that anymore. As a result, it…
30 famous paintings hung in the park (but not really)
Thirty famous paintings will hang on the fences around the Breda city park Valkenberg in the coming months. Admittedly, they are not the real ones but full size copies. The…
Famous Spanish paintings in the City Park in honor of La Vuelta
With the arrival of the Tour of Spain to the Netherlands, the Breda city park Valkenberg will be adorned from May 31 with thirty paintings from the famous Prado museum…
Twice red-orange, twice Rothko, twice abstract, with stripes. Two identical paintings, but one is worth 13 million more. How is that possible? † Art & Literature
artTwo paintings, which at first sight are identical, by the well-known cult painter Mark Rothko are going up for auction in London. They are the same size, and they have…
Hundreds of paintings ready to fill Helder’s museum: “But the money is gone”
Next to the De Nollen nature reserve in Den Helder, the concrete carcass of a future museum has been decaying for a long time. The plan to build the Rudi…
Three unknown paintings by Piet Mondrian discovered
It was a family secret for years: a real Mondrian, a portrait of Draaijer’s great-great-grandmother, hung in the living room of Nick Draaijer’s grandmother (32). When the writer decided to…