Bram van Velde
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.
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Trending topics shown first"Yes, I abandoned everything. Painting required it. It was all or nothing."
"Of course painting is ridiculous. But it’s the only way I've got to get closer to life."
"Painting is being alive. Through my painting, I beat back this world that stops us living and where we are in constant danger of being destroyed.. .No, you have to know when to keep silent."
"Each of my paintings is a cycle. It’s like existence, life. They are always in motion.. .If they were fixed and static, they would be false."
"Painting is an eye, a blinded eye that continues to see, and sees what blinds it.. ..this tiny little thing, which is nothing, which dominates life."
"There is only the present. A painting is an instant of time that has escaped oblivion."
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