This painting (acrylic on canvas) originally measured 50 x 70 centimetres.
It was worked with palette knife and glue comb.
The style of the work is abstract/futuristic.
Technically, mainly grattage (literally: scraping) was applied. To be precise: grattage with a palette knife in the still wet paint. The top layer is partially removed. This creates beautiful colour nuances and also flowing, organic forms , (also tight, cubist forms if desired). Grattage was widely used in the middle of the last century; by Joan Miró, Antonio Saura and Max Ernst, among others. The technique is linked to futurism, cubism and surrealism.
The repetition of shapes in the painting is also widely used in futurism (to depict movement and sound).
In the painting, red seems to engulf / take over a futuristic landscape.
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…