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Drawing, Graphite on Paper
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Golden Age Syndrom? This graphite pencil drawing ‘Art Deco Nude – 02-10-22’ follows after the (tentative) completion of my Darja Collins series. After doing her last portrait I thought it was time to return to my Art Deco series. It increases in number steadily even though I am a bit worried about the old fashioned title. I certainly have no desire to become an artist suffering from the golden age syndrom or am I? As an artist I am supposed to be a representative of my time and capture that, Baudelaire would have agreed. How is it that I don’t feel that? Is it sheer repulsion by modern times with its endless repetition of street patterns and company logos? Might it be the attraction to an age gone by in which the love for art and craft still counted? It might be a push and a pull altogeher. Art Deco’s Definition So I did a bit of self diagnosis by reading a book on Art Deco. At the beginning there was an interesting definition. It says: “Geometric styling of naturalistic forms with a degree of abstraction and streamlining. As a natural consequence it flows from bringing them back to the essence geometrically.” Suddenly I realized that I have been doing that for the last decade or so. There is nothing included in that definition that I didn’t fully live up to. Besides that, I certainly like the phrase ‘art deco’. It sounds chique and nowadays art deco bears that costly shiny golden patina. Hmmm, let’s keep the title for the series for a while. Pitt Graphite Matt pencil (Faber-Castell) drawing on Fabriano Ingres paper (21 x 28.2 x 0.1 cm) Artist: Corné Akkers
Drawing:Graphite on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:8.3 W x 11.1 H x 0 D in
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Netherlands
1969, born in Nijmegen. My work can be seen in many countries all over the world. Corné employs a variety of styles that all have one thing in common: the ever search for the light on phenomena and all the shadows and light planes they block in. His favorites in doing so are oil paint, dry pastel and graphite pencil. He states that it’s not the form or the theme that counts but the way planes of certain tonal quality vary and block in the lights. Colours are relatively unimportant and can take on whatever scheme. It’s the tonal quality that is ever present in his work, creating the illusion of depth and mass on a flat 2d-plane. Corné combines figurative work with the search for abstraction because neither in extremo can provide the desired art statement the public expects from an artist. Besides all that, exaggeration and deviation is the standard and results in a typical use of a strong colour scheme and a hugh tonal bandwith, in order to create art that, when the canvas or paper would be torn into pieces, in essence still would be recognizable.
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