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Playful figures of Gerard Bauwens
Female on the beach
Ghent – Gerard Bauwens at Vyncke-Van Eyck : young female and the beach. It sounds rather banally.
Nevertheless he does not dissapear in the masses of fine subject painters. He has something of this own, a technique. The realistic drawings are fascinating by the way her works with charcoal. The volumes are set up of large and small curling lines, there are no contours, some places are white and only marked with a few lines. The result is an unstability, an intangible reservedness.
This is mostly the reason of the inpact of his works. The image is not stereotyped but very traditional : beautiful figures, sometimes together but always alone, a bit of designing.
We can not say this is a hype. It is just one invention of style who supports his artwork. Here it is very well placeed. To illustrate the influence look at some titles.
This is nice, real nice.