New life by Auke de Jong

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by Auke de Jong

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This painting (acrylic on canvas) originally measured 50 x 70 centimetres,
It was worked exclusively with palette knives.
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.
This painting is titled ''New Life''. We see a multitude of organic forms; an evolutionary soup from which new forms may just bubble up. All kinds of existing life can be recognised (birds, fish, humans, etc.) , but also already new (sometimes strange) mutations.
The repetition of forms (as is common in Futurism) depicts movement (progress, speed) and sound (waves) .....

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About Auke de Jong

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…

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