A New Year and Resolutions This graphite pencil drawing ‘Neo Deco – 05-01-23’ is the first of 2023. Last year I concluded with another work in the roundism style and now it’s time to move on. Let’s see if I can combine styles and come up with something new. However, I am not such a person sticking to New Year’s resolutions necessarily. It’s just that I feel like changing. Surely it has something to do with a statement I made last year. That is bringing the spotlight back on craft and aesthetics. Another One Last Christmas I made one under the same title and I was quite content with it. Not in the least because of the hefty dark and light distribution in the reference picture. It also felt as cheating a bit though. There was only so little I could add to the mix but a straight cubist styling. Not bad for spending a Christmas Day at your parents’ home but it tasted like more. I happened to have one more smashing reference picture. Unfortunately I can give no one credit for the photograph even though I google searched for it. Obviously it’s from the 1930s given the hairdo. Fortunately there are tons of art deco-ish pictures to be found on the internet. Style Naming Doubts Art Deco and also Jugenstil or Art Nouveau in french almost have become an obsession to me. Hence I read books in bed before sleeping, just to sharpen my mind. Now there are a couple of things bothering me. Sheer copying the style seems daft so I desperately try to relate the styling to modern times. See if I can drive a wedge in today’s modern art. Another aspect is the decorative side. I don’t really see me drawing and painting such patterns or even inventing them. I do not consider myself another Alphonse Mucha. Bleh, perhaps it’s better to call the whole naming thing off and forget about it. Except for the fact I already wrote down the title in this work. Constructional As to the actual execution of this piece, I tried to determine simple geometric shapes in the female form. I render them even ostentatiously, yet the overall impression of the light and dark is realistic. It is yet another attempt to force a cross-over in the eyes of the beholder. There is nothing more I want than to show something essential. It’s that beauty and even emotions are constructed by an abundance of more simple forms. Pareidolian Deco? Graphite pencil (Faber Castell Pitt Graphite Matt pencil 14B) drawing Talens Bristol paper (21 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm) Artist: Corné Akkers
Neo Deco – 05-01-23 was created by artist Corne Akkers in 2023. This art piece , which is part of the Drawings - Corne Akkers portfolio, is a Drawings / Sketch artwork. The style of this artwork is best described as Cubism, Fine Art. The genre portrayed in this piece of art is Anatomy, Composition, Figurative, Inspirational, Nudes, People. The artwork was created in Pencil. The size of the original art is 30 (cms) H x 21 (cms) W.
Words which artist Corne Akkers feels best describe this work of art are: arte, art, artprint, print, artposter, poster, artdeco, deco, neodeco, cubism, kunst, فن, 艺术, कला, chiaroscuro, clairobscur, femaleform, finearts, graphite, roundism, rondisme, monochrome, drawing, pencildrawing, pencil, potlood, bleistift, crayon, realism, cubiste, искусство, cubismo, cubistic, アート, الرسم, кубизм, Κυβισμός, kubismi, lậpthể, 입체파, ਘਣਵਾਦ, مذهب, קוביזם, 立體主義, キュビズム, արվեստ, művészet, 1930s, 1920s, retro, vintage, retroart, vintageart.
My work can be seen in many countries all over the world. I employ 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. My favorites in doing so are oil paint, dry pastel and graphite pencil. It is 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 is the tonal quality that is ever present in my work, creating the illusion of depth and mass on a flat 2d-plane. I combine 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.
I teach art (drawing / painting) at Voorburg, Netherlands where I have my second studio next to my first at The Hague, Netherlands, where I live.