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Anne DykmansMagic (these two figures seated on a beach beneath an active sky evoke emotion)1998
1998
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An older couple sits on a beach facing the sea as a shooting object streaks through the sky. There is a feeling of connection and contentment conveyed through the imagery. Does the title refer to the nature of the couple's long and loving relationship? Does it refer to actual magic happening in the sky? This is a miniature image that carries a powerful feeling.
Anne Dykmans employs her superb command of engraving techniques, especially mezzotint, to create a special light which brings out the beauty in the simplest of everyday subjects – a chair, a ribbon, the beach. In addition to the beauty of form and light, she also creates evocative sensations.
Critic Roger Pierre Turine has written that “the subject is of little importance. All that counts in Dykmans’ work is that halo of light that surrounds it; that moment of solitude, never foreign to us as long as we are able to discover those same images within ourselves. She approaches her commonplace realities gently, yet there is always a brilliance in her work, ever accentuated by the subtle play between the possible nuances from black to white.”
- Creator:Anne Dykmans (1952, Belgian)
- Creation Year:1998
- Dimensions:Height: 2.38 in (6.05 cm)Width: 2.25 in (5.72 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New Orleans, LA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU841311046952
Anne Dykmans
Anne Dykmans is an established artist. Anne Dykmans was born in 1952. Artists born in the same year and of the same generation are Raúl Blisniuk, Peter Andersson, José Macaparana, Ricardo Cejudo Nogales, and Abolfazl Beytoei.
Further Biographical Context for Anne Dykmans Born in 1952, Anne Dykmans was primarily influenced by the 1970s. The 1970s were a period of consolidation and development in the arts, most often characterised as a response to the central strains of the previous decade. Conceptual art developed as a key movement, and was in part an evolution of and response to minimalism. Land Art took the works of art into the extensive outdoors, taking creative production away from commodities and engaging with the earliest ideas of environmentalism. Process art combined elements of conceptualism with other formal reflections, creating esoteric and experimental bodies of work. Expressive figurative painting began to regain importance for the first time since the decline of Abstract Expressionism twenty years prior, especially in Germany where Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz became highly respected figures worldwide. A number of the artists who gained fame and successful in the 1960s remained dominant figures. For example, Andy Warhol branched out into film and magazine publishing, the first kind of cross cultural activity for a visual artist. This secured his reputation as a globally renowned celebrity in his own right. Towards the end of the decade, the emerging practices of graffiti and street art were beginning to gain attention in the fine art community. Artists like Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat were working in downtown Manhattan and guaranteeing that spray paint and tagging gained some acceptability as a fine art practice, a trend which would fully develop and dominate during the next decade.
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