This painting (acrylic on canvas) originally measured 50 x 70 centimetres,
It was worked with palette knives, glue comb and masking tape.
The style is abstract and surreal/futuristic.
Technically, grattage (literally: scraping) has been applied. To be precise: grattage with a palette knife in the still wet paint. In the process, the top layer is partly removed, revealing the underlying layer. This creates organic (or: biomorphic) shapes but also sharp, taut lines. Fine transitions and nuances are created in the colour/colours.
Grattage was invented and applied in the middle of the last century by Joan Miró, Antonio Saura and Max Ernst, among others. The technique is characteristic of movements such as Futurism, Cubism and Surrealism.
This painting is titled: Coloured City. Behind a blur/curtain of geometric lines, we see in perspective buildings, streets, squares on two levels (like a mirage almost).
The repetition of shapes (as is common in Futurism) is used to suggest movement (speed) and sound (-waves)....
I am Auke de Jong (male, born 1953, married) and live in Hellevoetsluis (the Netherlands). I am also regularly in Hungary (in Mágocs), where we have a second home. As far as I know, I have been drawing and painting since my earliest childhood; later also.. Read more…