Photograph of Artist CORNE AKKERS
CORNE AKKERS
Den Haag, - Netherlands



Original Artworks (5)

Corne Akkers; Geesje Kwak, 2021, Original Painting Oil, 77 x 99 cm. Artwork description: 241 Abstracting in OilAfter the success of my initial drawing I decided to dissect Geesje Kwak geometrically even further. Surely it is an ode to abstraction in Japanese art in the first place. After kicking off the painting I came to realize it had to serve another ...
Corne Akkers
Original Oil Painting, 2021
77 x 99 cm (30.3 x 39.0 inches)
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Corne Akkers; Julia, 2018, Original Drawing Crayon, 30 x 21 cm. Artwork description: 241 Julia aEUR
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Original Crayon Drawing, 2018
30 x 21 cm (11.8 x 8.3 inches)
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Corne Akkers; Gaia, 2016, Original Painting Oil, 85 x 120 cm. Artwork description: 241 gaia surrealism oil painting animals nude nue nackt naakt desnudo surrealisme...
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Original Oil Painting, 2016
85 x 120 cm (33.5 x 47.2 inches)
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Corne Akkers; The Return Of Bettie Page, 2015, Original Painting Oil, 85 x 120 cm. Artwork description: 241   Bette Davis celebrity actress cubism drawing graphite clair obscur  ...
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Original Oil Painting, 2015
85 x 120 cm (33.5 x 47.2 inches)
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Artist Statement

It is not the form or the theme that counts but the way planes of certain tonal quality vary and block in the lights.
Colours are relatively unimportant and can take on whatever scheme. It is the tonal quality that is ever present in my work, creating the illusion of depth and mass on a flat 2d-plane.

I combine figurative work with the search for abstraction because neither in extremo can provide the desired art statement the public expects from an artist.
Besides all that, exaggeration and deviation is the standard and results in a typical use of a strong colour scheme and a hugh tonal bandwith, in order to create art that, when the canvas or paper would be torn into pieces, in essence still would be recognizable. ...

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