Corne_Akkers
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ArtistCorné Akkers
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Typeimage
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Dimensions60 x 80 x 0.1 cm
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Price$1600
My New Style This oil painting ‘Neo Deco – 12-01-24’ incorporates new elements. Motivated as I was to continue my search after my last one I...
My New Style This oil painting ‘Neo Deco – 12-01-24’ incorporates new elements. Motivated as I was to continue my search after my last one I tried out something new. You see, some time ago I made a graphite pencil drawing ‘Woman in a Red Kimono – 03-11-22’. To my opinion that one already shows all the necessary elements for my new Neo Deco style. An intricate linear play, repetition of forms and foremost a contrast between straight structures and curves. Maybe I realized what I actually to want to get out of the style. It resembles art deco closely but I think there is a difference. The latter was merely focused on architecture, apparel and sculptures. There were some typical deco painters like Tamara de Lempicka. Surely I didn’t see all of them but they merely focus on exaggerating and manipulating body proportions. I have different plans! Woman in a Red Kimono Aforementioned drawing became the artistic motif for this one. The goal was to enforce linear structur