Family Portrait

family portrait

Finally the family portrait is finished and it can be shipped to the gallery.  A major job and I really enjoyed the work. Like always the challenge was to get all four protagonists in a credible way on the canvas, engaged in the same moment in time. And of course, the resemblance had to be complete; the main criterion of commissioned work. On this matter I was in close contact with the client as usual, willing to listen carefully and if necessary making adjustments. I will miss the painting that has been for some month on my easel. Eventually everything leaves the studio.

Happy Christmas 2

Happy christmas

The First Noël – Suus & Will Will Sophie is my cousin who is playing his compositions in some of my videos. With his partner he recorded this Christmas song. MUST SEE & LISTEN. Thank you Will and Suus!

Hear him playing in my videos.

 

 

 

 

American impressionism in Madrid (2)

american impressionism

Thyssen-Bornemisza American impressionism

I admit it: I had a prejudice against art historians. I would prefer to look for myself rather than listen to someone else talking about it. My stupid shortsightedness! Last Friday I attended the conference “American Impressionism”, organized by and at the Thyssen Bornemisza Museum in Madrid. I enjoyed tremendously the lectures and the expertise of the lecturers! The starting point of the conference was the influence of the French impressionism on the American art of the late 19th century. Continue reading “American impressionism in Madrid (2)”

Work from photography

Photograph

Eugène DelacroixOn Facebook this week I came across a very interesting article on the painter Eugène Delacroix and the use of photography. This also has to do with portrait painting. I thought it is important to share. Here’s a short quote.

Delacroix imagined that the daguerreotype (the term was then interchangeable with “photograph”) would contribute to a new and improved kind of painting, one he himself would not live to see. In his journal, he ended his account of the evening’s experiment with a confident glimpse into the future. “Truly, if a (painter) of genius should use the daguerreotype as it ought to be used,” Delacroix prophesized, “he will raise himself to heights unknown to us.”

Eugène Delacroix

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