Product Description
Shop Matthijs & Ben – 26-02-20 (sold) Canvas Print by artist Corne Akkers available at Artist.com. Check out the Canvas Print collections available at Artist.com.
Matthijs & Ben – 26-02-20 (sold) This one is special. Long since they passed away only now to reappear in pastel. This one represents my uncle Ben taking care of his son Matthijs some 30 years ago. Matthijs was a special person: of character and always cheerful but also challenged by a double handicap. He lived a life as good as he could wish for with the ever care and support of his parents Ben en Helma. Even though he was taken care after very well and, together with his parents, his sister Marie-José and all my family stood beside him, he passed away in his early 30s, a couple of years later followed by his father Ben. Making this one was not easy, since doing a pastel like this one constantly takes you back in time but I take comfort in the fact that after we all will be gone, they can linger about in livingrooms of descendants of the Corbeek family and perhaps, if future generations look close enough, they can be spotted in the back corners of the internet, commemorating the love of a father for his son. Pastel drawing on Canson Mi-Teintes Touch paper (50 x 65 x 0.1 cm) Artist: Corné AkkersMy 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.
Additional Products