William Baziotes vs. Bram van Velde
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
William Baziotes
1912 – 1963
William Baziotes was an American painter influenced by Surrealism and was a contributor to Abstract Expressionism.
"My whole intention in painting is to make a thing poetical; but not poetical in a literary sense. I want something that evokes mood, a background, a stage set f…"
Bram van Velde
1895 – 1981
Abraham "Bram" Gerardus van Velde was a Dutch painter known for an intensely colored and geometric semi-representational painting style related to Tachisme, and Lyrical Abstraction. He is often seen as member of the School of Paris but his work resides somewhere between expressionism and surrealism, and evolved in the 1960s into an expressive abstract art. His paintings from the 1950s are similar to the contemporary work of Matisse, Picasso and the abstract expressionist Adolph Gottlieb.
"Yes, I abandoned everything. Painting required it. It was all or nothing."
Connections
Both wrote about: