Jan Toorop
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4 January - 5 February 1989 Hours: 9:30a.m.- 5:00 p.m. Admission: charged |
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When an entire oeuvre of an artist is produced during a transformative period in the history of fine art, it should be interesting to trace how the artist absorbs others’ excellent results of the same period and makes them his own vocabulary. Jan Toorop(1858-1928), one of representatives of Dutch symbolist painting, is its valuable example. The period from the latter half of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century when Toorop lived saw unprecedented revolutions in the history of art as a transitional stage. It was no other than an agitated period from Impressionism through Neo-impressionism, Post-impressionism and Symbolism to Fauvism and Cubism. Toorop, born at Java, moved to Den Hague and studied painting at Amsterdam and then Brussel where he participated in Les Vingt. Through relationships with various avant-garde artists and literary men, he developed his own style from Impressionism and Pointillism to Symbolism. His symbolist works show his extraordinary skill for drawing and at the same time mysterious feeling of fin-de-siecle. One time as a graphic artist of Art Nouveau, another time as a religious painter of Catholicism, or as a planner of exhibitions introducing avant-garde art, his varying styles and activities reflect not but transformation of the period. This exhibition was supervised by Victorine Hefting. |
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