Masonite Abstract Paintings

Translated title: "Now I see you". Acrylic on masonite.

Pianeti, satelliti ed una citta nello spazio. Firmato da artista Gregor Alexis Vogt - Tamaroff. Data e luogo della creazione sul retro: Marsiglia 1972. In un paesaggio surreale appar...

This painting is a perfect example of lyrical abstraction and a choice painting out of the best period of Vlerick's career. Ineffable, 1962 Oil on Masonite board 91,5 x 61,5 cm (without frame) 93 x 63 cm (framed) Signed and dated Top Right ‘P. Vlerick 1962’ with title, signature place and date at the back: Ineffable P. Vlerick Afsnee 1962 Pierre Vlerick’s work shows some resemblance to Willem de Kooning’s. While the Dutch American was famed for the wild manner in which he treated his canvas, Pierre Vlerick showed some more restraint, but making a painting was in any case a slow process of stopping and starting and revising. His exploration is meant to result in a correct proportion of colour fields and streaks, often applied layer upon layer. All his colors have a luminous intensity. It was mainly Bonnard’s colorful work that inspired Vlerick to compose his own singular range of colors of slightly tingling yellows, greens, oranges and bits of blue here and there. Abstraction is emphasized by his use of color. Colors not associated with objects from daily life often dominate the composition: purple, for instance. This is the basis for his continuing abstraction, ending up as color fields combined with organic elements depicted with the vaguest of contours. Though both artists create a very metropolitan, say even worldly art, their work evokes nature. De Kooning has been called a master of ‘abstract landscape’. The structure of Vlerick’s works, too, is very vegetable and organic. No wonder he referred to his paintings as his ‘gardens’. Neither artist allowed his garden to remain empty: de Kooning created a female figure looking like a cross between a floozy and the mother goddess. Vlerick imagined a woman who is enjoying her body. Vlerick’s approach to abstract art is the same as de Kooning’s; they refuse to paint in a figurative manner, yet at the same time do not wish to renounce referring to reality. De Kooning once put it very accurately during an interview when he conceded that painting the human figure any longer was absurd(in the post-war period), but also stated that it would be even more absurd not to do it. The only way out of this ambiguous dilemma is the deconstruction of the human figure. Not in order to reject it, but to show it in all its fragility. Pierre Vlerick’s exceptional artistic talents were already recognized while he was studying at the Ghent Academy (1940-1944) whereupon graduating he received a gold medal. In 1947-1948 Vlerick enrolls at the “la Grande Chaumière Academy”, a Parisian private academy which attracts lots of foreign artists thanks to the reputation of its most important teachers such as Maurice Denis (1870-1943). Denis was one of the founding fathers of “the Nabis” and is also considered to be the godfather of abstract art by many artists and art critics. Maurice Denis is famous for his quote: "Remember that a painting, before it is any kind of representation, is essentially a flat surface covered with colors in a certain collected order." At La Grande Chaumière, Vlerick is challenged to develop a pictorial language of his own. Vlerick develops a way to translate the observed reality into visions of color and form, which can be situated somewhere on the axis between the figurative and the abstract. Reality is decomposed and reconstructed into a complete new representation. After a trip to Spain in 1955 the painter evolves towards the use of brighter colors. At the Brussels World Exhibition of 1958 (Expo 58) Vlerick is for the first time confronted with real works of 17 American artists (William Baziotes, James Brooks, Sam Francis, Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Grace Hartigan, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Theodoros Stamos, Clyfford Still, Bradley Walker...

Introducing a beautiful acrylic painting on masonite by the Danish artist, Anette Holmberg. Anette Holmberg (1969-) is a visual artist from Denmark (Scandinavia) with a master's de...

This painting is a perfect example of lyrical abstraction and a choice painting out of the best period of Vlerick's career. Pierre Vlerick’s work shows...

This painting is a perfect example of lyrical abstraction and a choice painting out of the best period of Vlerick's career. Geen nachtschade (No Nightshade), 1962 Oil on Masonite board 121 x 61 cm (without frame) 136 x 75 cm (framed) Signed and dated bottom left ‘P. Vlerick 1962’& with title, signature place and date at the back Pierre Vlerick...

This painting is a perfect example of lyrical abstraction and a choice painting out of the best period of Vlerick's career. Pierre Vlerick’s work shows...

Mixed Media on Masonite

Mixed Media on Masonite

Acrylic on Masonite

Mixed Media on Masonite

Mixed Media on Masonite

Mixed Media on Masonite

Acrylic on Masonite

Acrylic on Masonite

Mixed Media on Masonite

Acrylic on Masonite

signed and dated (lower left)

My dream is an original contemporary artwork realized in the 2000s by Valerio Romagnoli. Mixed colored oil painting and tempera on masonite. Wooden base.

Acrylic paint on masonite.

Acrylic paint on masonite. The frame was painted by the artist.

Translated title: "Skull". Acrylic on masonite. It features a wooden frame, which is painted and decorated with gold leaves.

Acrylic paint on masonite. The frame was painted by the artist.

Acrylic paint on masonite.

Acrylic paint on masonite.

Translated title: "Pink tree". Oil paint on masonite.

Acrylic paint on masonite.

Acrylic paint on masonite.

Acrylic paint on masonite.

Acrylic paint on masonite.

Acrylic Paint on Masonite.

Acrylic on masonite.

Acrylic paint on masonite.

Acrylic paint on masonite. The frame was painted by the artist.

Acrylic paint on masonite.

Acrylic paint on masonite. The frame was painted by the artist.

Acrylic paint on masonite. The frame was painted by the artist.

Acrylic paint on masonite. The frame was painted by the artist.

Acrylic paint on masonite.

Translated title: "Now I see you" Acrylic on masonite.

Acrylic paint on masonite. The frame was painted by the artist.

Translated title: "Now I see you". Acrylic on masonite.

Acrylic paint on masonite. The frame was painted by the artist.

Acrylic paint on masonite.

Acrylic on masonite

Acrylic paint on masonite. The frame was painted by the artist.

Acrylic paint on masonite.

Acrylic on masonite.