Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Contemporary Dutch Artist

Today I have been looking at, studying certain artists who presumably try to conjure up nightmarish imagery. I looked at some of Francis Bacon's work:

I also found a dutch artist named Otto Egberts whose art has the same bold, grotesque imagery of Bacon's work.


http://www.into-drawing.com/egberts_nl.htm

http://www.ottoegberts.nl/tekeningen.htm#

These artists are able to tell stories of disturbing horror.

Have you ever tried to create a piece to illustrate a nightmare? Do you remember my painting "Fear"? Maybe we should each try to paint something in this style, because it is so removed from both of our aesthetic...what do you think?

1 comment:

  1. that's an interesting idea - I do want to stretch my style more which is why I started the "memory" series. I usually paint without any definite plan or subject matter in mind and sometimes I think I'm afraid to do anything too realistic or revealing.
    there are other artists with similar work, but I can't remember names right now... Anselm Keifer comes to mind, but I'm not sure if his work is really as frightening as Bacon...
    I could give it a try.............

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