A digital painting based on photographs. The big city. A hustle and bustle. A tourist stares her eyes out and manages to tear herself away from the stream of pedestrians to take some pictures. The chaos of the city reduced to almost abstract forms in this digital painting. Peace created by the sparse use of colour. For the artist a study in abstraction. Re-enacting photographs. How far can you go with simplification until it is just recognizable? What can be left out? What must be added? Reality is subordinate to the beauty of the image.
Bert-Jan de Wagenaar (1974), photographer, graphic designer, artist, musician.
In the 1990s he studied for a number of years at the art and graphics academy. There he was taught the craft of (then still analogue) photography and graphic design. In the end, he decided on a..
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