Peter Paul Rubens

the most famous flemish inhabitant, i suppose
two new assets for my online museum

great news

since about a week or so,
i'm a part of the website 'urban sketchers"
i'm actually really proud of that, i've been following the site for a while now.

http://www.urbansketchers.com/2009/06/meet-correspondents-ghent-belgium-robbe.html

books II

books

art can sometimes be found in unusual places.
this week, the library in a local town near me, was having a stock-sale.
i saw it as a chance to buy some books i would never buy for high price, books i would nevertheless love to own and read.
i ended up leaving there with a pile of over 50 books. 10 were for reading, the rest i bought because of their hugely attractive book covers, their illustrations.

i'm thinking about, contemplating still, but i suppose i'll start working with these old covers.

the bible for painters

really!
i found it, oddly, on a second hand market. it was just lying there. I have been looking for something like it for YEARS!
carefully and professionally the writer, gino piva, has writen everything technical about painting in it. you might know, but painting is somewhat of a lost art. in art-school, they don't teach 'technique" anymore. it's all about the artistical prestation. I have come to a point in my paintings where I believe, if I can advance my technical skills, the creative story will enhance.

so, if it interests you as well, ask about this book. look it up. my version is translated from italian, so it might have been translated in dozens of other languages.
or, come to me. I'll become your teacher

Denderleeuw

i haven't done much lately. i've been enjoying graduating, actually.
meeting friends i haven't had the chance to see in a long time. i took a
short vacation in my uncle's cabin in the woods. i tried to relax a little.

i seem to have succeeded. people tell me they've never seen me healthier.
i suppose obsession is a bit like being sick. you're absent all the time,
and the colour of your skin turns pale. you hardly ever come out, and you
can't sleep.

I would like to show you the result of a video-exhibition i recently did.
the film is called 'vreemdeling' or stranger. the subject of this exhibition
was a small old town. it was our job to 'preserve' it in a certain way.
this is my attempt to do so. i found Denderleeuw to be very claustrofobic,
and empty. as if this small town could dissapear at any time.
there was an enormous limitation in budget, so i worked with what i got.
i tried to handle this video-footage as if I were painting, as if the camera
was a paintbrush, and the cinemascreen was a canvas.

i would like to show you around there someday.

erszebet

i'm actually proud of this frame from my film,
hence the reason for posting an older work

my new filmproject is being reviewed by a commision since yesterday.
this commission will decide if i will be funded, the flemish governement (through the VAF flemisch filmhouse) will either grant me the necessairy money, or they won't

they practically decide if this project will be made, or not.

it's called 'norman', a story about obsession and angst, paranoia, beauty and horror.
nothing else is possible, but this time again, it will be made in oil-paint animation

here's a quick preview

sketches by the great pablo picasso

milton avery

de spanjaard door evenepoel

tentoonstelling ensor-goya-redon.

in het mska (museum voor schone kunsten, antwerpen) vndt momenteel een tentoonstelling die heel interessant is. tenminste de belofte op de flyer is interessant.
de tentoonstelling zelf is wat gebrekkig, en slordig.
de aandacht gaat vooral naar ensor. het is geen slechte zaak, maar als je ensor confronteert met dan een goya, zou je toch een boeiende uitdaging mogen stellen.
de grote indrukwekkende schilderijen van ensor staan tegen de boekenillustraties van goya. niets van de indrukwekkende olieverven werken is terug te vinden. enkele studies en één werkje uit goya's jeugd.
de hele opstelling zelf is verschrikkelijk smerig. lelijke valse wanden delen het museum in in 'hippe' muren, met een motiefje op.

in alle eerlijkheid, de hele museumervaring viel volledig weg.
ik heb het zelden moeilijk te verdwalen in musea,
maar daar wou ik eerlijk gezegd echt weg.

toch is het het absoluut waard om te gaan kijken.
de etsen van goya zijn enorm interessant,
de collectie van ensor is niet te missen.
redon heb ik persoonlijk altijd al te veel een intellectualist gevonden,
dus daar moet je zelf uitmaken of je die wilt zien.
ga kijken,
stap gewoon niet binnen met hoge verwachtingen

gustave van de woestyne

portret van professor fabrice polderman

felice casorati

you can find this picture in the MSK, in ghent.

jan sluijters

gustave desmet

cy twombly

edouard vuillard

close friend of pierre bonnard and fellow member of 'les nabis'

de koer

here's something i painted quickly while working on my film, 'erszebet'. there was this amazing sunlight falling down on a parkinglot, through an emergency door, in my studio.
i have an exposition right now, in the departement where i graduated, and i rediscovered this oil-sketch

max slevogt

sometimes you will meet painters,
and while you gaze at their 'oeuvre', their collection of works, you notice a sort of hunger.
some people are just obsessed by painting.
here's Max slevogt, a very passionate german painter.
and i notice the hunger

there's a quote comming from him, i remember. he said
'everytime i see a tintoretto i get exited about painting. everytime i see a rembrandt i just want to give up.'

a very familiar feeling

william turner

presenting venice by monet

source is artdaily.com,
where they mentioned an upcoming exhibition about venice,
worth looking up.
if i had sufficient funds, i would be there now.
enjoy these masterpieces

comic art

there's actually more where these came from.
i decided to post only these to. artists, painters aren't serious pondering people.
most of them find pleasure in theyre occupation.
and sometimes this pleasure get's mixed with humour.

i know the comic angle of the devil-painting might actually be an unintended pun.
i'm not really sure, but devils haven't always been these red horned fiery creatures. some descriptions are very strange. just like this face-for-an-ass devil

devil painted by michael pacher
head sculpted by messer schmidt

exhibition

zeker komen!

richard gerstl

pieter pietersz