This painting (acrylic on canvas) originally measured 40 x 40 centimetres.
It was worked exclusively with palette knives.
The style of the work is abstract, with elements of cubism and futurism.
Technically, it mainly used ''grattage'' (literally: scraping). More precisely, grattage with a palette knife in the still wet paint. This technique produces organic (or: biomorphic) forms; but also sharp lines and angular shapes as in Cubism. Grattage was invented and applied in the middle of the last century by Antonio Saura and Max Ernst, among others.
The organic in the forms of the painting is further enhanced by the green (organic) colour. As a result of grattage, the warm yellow emerges and all kinds of gradations of greenish yellow are created.
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…