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Video: Optical illusion and the effect of illusory reality on the canvases of the Dutch artist Kenne Gregoire
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Nowadays, it would seem, you can't surprise anyone with realism in painting, a long time ago everything was said by classic artists. However, the modern Dutch master Kenne Gregoire this task turned out to be quite tough. He managed to find his author's face, working in the genre of realism, where he created a kind of fusion of the traditional and completely new vision of the world around him. He gave an important role in his work to the compositional construction of paintings, where he learned to masterfully manipulate isometric perspective and naturalistic visualization.
Experts call the master a follower of the best traditions of the Dutch school of painting. The detailing of everyday life is inherent in Kenne Gregoire's extraordinary work. Filigree compositional techniques and highly artistic depiction of various textures - porcelain, wood, glass, fabrics.
The Dutch painter creates his realistic works with almost photographic precision. Well, and it would seem, what is surprising here? Only after looking through the gallery of his works, you begin to understand that they lack the perspective that the human eye is used to seeing. Each object on the picture plane exists as if by itself. Nevertheless, thanks to the incredibly beautiful background space, the paintings acquire integrity.
The artist in his works skillfully uses a special kind of perspective, called "isometric", which allowed him to find his own style and author's handwriting. It is this perspective, used by developers in mechanical engineering to construct a visual representation of parts in a drawing, as well as in computer games for three-dimensional objects and panoramas, in the composition of the construction of paintings that allows the artist to create the effect of an illusory reality.
By the way, the name of this perspective came from the Greek language and means “equal size”, reflecting the fact that in this projection the scales are equal on all axes. In other kinds of perspectives, this is not the case at all.
The artist's technique of "looking from above" allows the viewer to "hover" over the image and scrupulously examine all the depicted objects. With his extraordinary painting, Gregoire emphasizes that traditional technique does not always require a traditional approach.
The artist, choosing the nature for his works, always gives preference to objects "with history", that is, with the past - with chips, rust, dents. Thus, filling their works with emotional meaning.
Among the thematic diversity of the painter's work, there are several genres to which he constantly returns. These are, first of all, still lifes made in the author's manner, as well as theatrical scenes of the commedia dell'arte, portraits of actors, participants in masquerades and clowns. He also uses various other themes in the same technique: illusions, romantic landscapes and still lifes on brown paper.
As for the techniques, in his works the master often resorts to the technique of the old masters, which was widespread as early as the 16-17th centuries. First, the artist creates an underpainting using the grisaille technique, followed by the application of various colored glazes. He also uses acrylic paints.
My life appeared to me like a fantastic dream
For many years, along with unusual still lifes, Kenne Gregoire has created paintings in the style of the commedia dell'arte (another name is the comedy of masks, an improvised street theater of the Italian Renaissance, which arose in the middle of the 16th century and, in fact, formed the first professional theater in history).
In these works one can see loneliness, despair and melancholy, that is, the mood of the theatrical actors, which contrasts sharply with their festive attire.
A few words about the artist
Kenne Gregoire (real name - Jean Josquin Gregoire) was born in 1951 in Queldam, Holland. At one time, the artist graduated with a silver medal from the State Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam. At the invitation of the Ministry of Culture, he passed practice in Italy, which, of course, left a deep mark on the work of the master in the future.
Currently, the artist's works are in great demand in the art market and are in private collections around the world.
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