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Miscellany - articles - Lisette De Backer
The subject in the artwork of Gerard Bauwens is the human figure in all his aspects.
The beauty of a girls face, a woman's body inspires him to lyric designing, in which he brings together sensuality and tenderness and evades the pure physical by his inward inspiration.
His figures mostly do not look at the spectator, their look is turned aside or down what takes them to a motionless peace and timelessness. Less frequently he is drawing justj one person but more diversity in positions. They are the starting point of great and well-balanced compositions in which the commbination of figures are not simply a matter of structure, but mostly based on a mutual engagement.
Out from here the full content and sense of the artwork appears, and this with lyric and romantic titles.
The artwork, charming and virtuosic as well as the composition is the technique of Gerard Bauwens, who mostly works in black and white. From innumerable drafts and curls the figure appears, alive and kicking. Ther subtlety calls to approach to study this little technical wonder, but at the same time makes you take a distance from where the volume and flexibility and the full plasticity is expresed.
Gerard Bauwens has no label of any movement, he is classical and timeless at the same time, in a word creator of a beauty of all times.
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Lisette De Backer.