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Overkleeft, Joop

  • The power of limitation and the confrontation with a dissonance in an interplay that is constantly changing. Balancing on the border between concrete and abstract.
  • "When designing images, I am primarily concerned with the relationship between forms of nature and cultural phenomena. It is of great influence to learn to 'see'. Which forms are created by water...?" (© 2013-2019-Joop Overkleeft)

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  • With frame.
  • From the 28.11.2019 to see in the sales exhibition in the gallery Bülles (Duisburg, Germany).
  • Joop Overkleeft is a painter, graphic artist and cool photo who 'lives' from the water and the rivers; it is his great source of inspiration and muse.
  • Overkleeft has been drawing and photographing since his childhood, and he eventually started at the art academy in Arnhem.
  • An exhibition by Sean Scully in Bieleveld determined the direction of his work.
  • The source of inspiration has remained and it is about the power of the limitation: balancing on the border between concrete and abstract.
  • Joop Overkleeft regularly participates in exhibitions, and makes paintings, woodcuts and photos.
  • Since recent years he has also focused on making Japanese woodcuts with traditional materials and methods.
Technique: Oil and Acrylic
Surface: on jute
Year: 2012
Country of Origin: The Netherlands
Signed: Yes
Topic: Water
Style: Abstract Art
Time Period: 21th Century
Total Size: 26,5 x 32,0 cm
Orientation: Landscape
Primary Color: Blue
Secondary Color: Creme

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