This painting (acrylic on canvas) originally measured 40 x 50 centimetres.
It was worked exclusively with palette knives.
The style of the work is abstract; with elements of futurism and cubism.
Technically, it is mainly ''grattage" (literally: scraping) applied. To be precise: grattage with a palette knife in the still wet paint. This technique produces organic (or: biomorphic) forms; but also sharp, rigid shapes and lines (as in Cubism). Grattage was invented and used in the middle of the last century by Antonio Saura and Max Ernst, among others.
The painting is reminiscent of an aerial view of a coastal strip. Not only on land, but also in the sea, we see the precipitation of human activities (subdivision, artefacts, furnishing, etc.).
Among the cool green and blue tones, we see -due to the grattage- warm yellow emerging.
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…