This painting (acrylic on canvas) originally measured 50 x 50 centimetres,
It was worked with palette knives and with a glue comb.
The style is abstract and surrealistic/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) forms 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.
Many contradictions are visible in this painting The organic, flowing forms are intersected / overlapped by straight, rigid lines (borders?); blue-green predominates as a colour on the left and black is superimposed on it to the right of the dark border; the yellow contrasts with the other colours; the depth effect is different in the left and right parts of the painting, the perspective is perpendicular and oblique respectively....
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…