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This painting is a perfect example of lyrical abstraction and a choice painting out of the best period of Vlerick's career.
Pierre Vlerick (1923-1999): His 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 colours 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 colour 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 Tomlin and Jack Tworkov) and he is deeply impressed. This event pushes him even further into the direction of abstraction, and from 1959 onwards Pierre Vlerick radically evolves towards a lyrical abstract expressionism. His abstract paintings from the first half of the 1960s are experimental and raw in their treatment of space and surface, and bewitching with their use of dazzling colours.
In the early 1960s the artist starts exhibiting abstract impressionist works at international shows such as the Carnegie Institute, (Pittsburgh 1961/1962); The Corcoran Gallery, (Washington D.C.1963) ; Venice Biennale (Belgian Pavilion), (Venice 1964); Musea de Arte Moderna, (Rio de Janeiro,1965).
Vlerick obtains a Fulbright scholarship, which enables him to stay in the States in 1964 and 1968. He also briefly teaches at the Harvard University in Boston. At the same time, Vlerick collaborated in curating the Forum exhibitions in Ghent in 1961-62-63, where the European avant-garde was prominently shown. This allowed him to be in close contact with the artists and their ideas. To his credit, his work always remained very personal and original.
- Creator:Pierre Vlerick (1923 - 1999)
- Dimensions:Height: 38.59 in (98 cm)Width: 53.55 in (136 cm)Depth: 2.76 in (7 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Gent, BE
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2140212299672
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