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Rein Draijer
The Last Easel Painting, 1968
Down to basics! Reduce the form to a mould! Paint smoothly without brushstrokes! Use standard colours, like the RAL system. Only then will you definitively reach the final stage before a recognizable image – landscape, object – becomes completely abstract. Rein Draijer, also a sculptor, stamp design
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er and influential painting teacher, worked in this strict, irrevocable manner. The evocative title of this painting of a bare easel gives it a double meaning. With this skeleton of an art tradition, there is no way back. Clinical. Cold. Over and out.
Long-term loan from the Cultural Heritage Agency
Text: Chris Reinewald
From: Museum MORE: 100 jaar realisme, 2020, Gorssel
Artist
Rein Draijer
Title
The Last Easel Painting
Year
1968
Technique
Oil on canvas
Size
134.5 x 134.5 cm (h x w)
Type of object
Painting
Copyright
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