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Dick van Dijk
Netherlands
Artist highlights
- Works on commission
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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil, Pencil on Linen
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 19.7x27.6in
About this artwork
A defining aspect of Pose is the deliberate tension between revelation and concealment. The subject is not a depiction of a real individual but an imagined presence that emerges gradually through the act of painting. The figure is repeatedly interrupted by abstract marks, painterly passages, and fragments of color that stand between the subject and the viewer. Inspired by the male body, I approach human figures as a form to be shaped and discovered…
rather than faithfully represented. I continue to develop and alter the figure until it evokes an emotional response, transforming the body into a vehicle for intimacy, closeness, and quiet surrender.
(Incidentally, this work is a reworked version of an earlier painting named 'Float', illustrating for me that I am still finding more focus and more skills to capture the image I had in my head).
(Incidentally, this work is a reworked version of an earlier painting named 'Float', illustrating for me that I am still finding more focus and more skills to capture the image I had in my head).
Dick van Dijk
Netherlands
Credentials
- Works on commission
Dick van Dijk is an Amsterdam-based artist who draws and paints. His work is inspired by the male figure and balances between control and intuition. Dick compares his process to collage, composing, modifying, deconstructing and reconstructing human shapes in layers of paint and colour. Painterly discoveries during the working process create new elements and dynamics. In doing so, he seeks a duality between recognisable forms and less elaborate parts to create a lively image. In some works, (parts of) figures are hidden, while in other works bodies appear, visual clues to what is or is not there.
The results are bodily forms that tell layered stories of freedom and intimacy, close to the skin and viewed through the lens of memory and expectation.
The results are bodily forms that tell layered stories of freedom and intimacy, close to the skin and viewed through the lens of memory and expectation.
Dick van Dijk
Pose
$1,630
