Hardly Abstract Forest Dunescape

My, goodness gracious, how lax I've been in keeping up this blog. Painting is a harsh mistress. Happy to show you the result though:



Hardly Abstract Forest Dunescape I (own work, 200 x 260 cm * acrylic and mixed media * 2009)

After the experimental thread on diminishing size and contra-indicative abstractification in the Dunescape series, I decided to return to painting from the basic -though pretty much obsolete, philosophically speaking- figurative perspective. Sometimes old flasks need to be replenished before new frontiers can be crossed, so to say.

This outdated approach I deemed to work best with the exaggerated sizes that are still so prevalent in the modern musea. So there. Gagosian immediately expressed an interest, but the work is not for sale, since later generations will no doubt ridicule it as traditionalist cliché. Nonetheless, some cliché is necessary in any art work, or it becomes unrecognizable as such (like demonstrated in the Hidden in Plain Sight series).

I'm considering donating this work for a charity auction.

Abstract Dunescape ii (Sold)

Abstract Dunescape i (own work, 8 x 10 cm * mixed media * 2009)

The abstractification in the Dunescape series is taken a step further. Bold, decisive strokes. Challenging our perception of what is landscape, what is manmade pattern, what is abstract?

This work has been sold and is currently unavailable for art investors.

Semi-abstract Dunescape i and ii

Semi-abstract Dunescape ii (own work, 8 x 11 cm * mixed media * 2008)

The Dunescape series is a quintessential ingredient in the reunification of abstract expressionism with earlier landscape traditions. Above we see the first halfway abstractification in the same postpostmodernly deprecating size, below the second




Semi-abstract Dunescape ii (own work, 8 x 10 cm * mixed media * 2009)

I repeat from the earlier Dunescape post:

To emphasize the stampcollectorality of the current art world, I'm putting up a particularly fine selection from the Dunescape series. Each can be acquired for a mere €5000. However, the entire lot of 4 Dunescapes will be sold for €19995. Art investors, this is a unique opportunity to add a real Kwaaknijd to your collection. There are only a few Dunescapes out there, and most owners aren't selling any time soon. This offer ends 1 March 2009, so don't hesitate too long.

The Dunescape series will be continued in later posts, without the sales opportunity.

Abstract Dunescape i

Abstract Dunescape i (own work, 8 x 12 cm * mixed media * 2008)

The abstractification in the Dunescape series is a quintessential ingredient in the reunification of abstract expressionism with earlier landscape traditions. The increased monetary influence on art has made size an important element of contemporary art.

I repeat from the earlier Dunescape post:

To emphasize the stampcollectorality of the current art world, I'm putting up a particularly fine selection from the Dunescape series. Each can be acquired for a mere €5000. However, the entire lot of 4 Dunescapes will be sold for €19995. Art investors, this is a unique opportunity to add a real Kwaaknijd to your collection. There are only a few Dunescapes out there, and most owners aren't selling any time soon. This offer ends 1 March 2009, so don't hesitate too long.

More Dunescape series in the coming posts.

The Dunescape series 1

Dunescape with kitchentopppattern(own work, 9 x 12 cm * mixed media * 2009)

To emphasize the stampcollectorality of the current art world, I'm putting up a particularly fine selection from the Dunescape series. Each can be acquired for a mere €5000. However, the entire lot of 4 Dunescapes will be sold for €19995. Art investors, this is a unique opportunity to add a real Kwaaknijd to your collection. There are only a few Dunescapes out there, and most owners aren't selling any time soon. This offer ends 1 March 2009, so don't hesitate too long.

More on the Dunescape series in the coming posts, although I must first comment on a recent entry of mine in the Saatchi online `showdown'.