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GRAPHICAL ARTS
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During his years at the Jan van Eyck Academy, Mathieu Vroemen mastered the techniques of the graphical arts, like a.o. etching, copper engraving, wood- and linoleum cutting. He preferred to render an image by clear lines or in different shades of grey. In the Fifties, he obtained a scholarship for a study tour in Italy. During all of his further life, his passion and partiality to the graphical element characterized his work. He never went by an opportunity to acquaint himself with the work of fellow artists conversant in these techniques, irrespective whether they had already acquired world fame or belonged to his own direct circle. In that way, it gave him extraordinary much pleasure to observe and study the prints of Rembrandt and the landscape etchings of Hercules Seghers, Rembrandt’s contemporary and friend, of the Spanish 19th century artist Goya, as well as of the great masters of the 20th century like Picasso, Chagall, Raoul Dufy and David Hockney.
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birth announcement Joris - etching / mother and child - etching landscape - etching / woman on horse - etching copy from old engraving - copper engraving free copy to medieval engraving - copper engraving female danser - copper engraving stella maris - copper engraving gloria in excelsis deo - copper engraving twelve apostles - copper engraving the twelve months - copper engraving mother and child II - wood cut joris and the dragon - wood cut communion card lucas - wood cut biblical repesentation - wood cut / wood cut from 1957 |
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