БОльшая часть нарисована во время войны и оккупации (1940 годы). Например, нижняя называется "Голодная зима", а предыдущая, с висельниками - "Германство".
Да я сам только вчера узнал (см. ссылку в самом начале поста). Может, он сумасшедший, и некоторые картины явно очень неприятные, но как можно упустить худажника такого масштаба - поразительно. И в сети почти ничего нет.
Melle has sometimes been classed under surrealism, but he resisted this categorisation; he considered himself a visionary artist like Hieronymus Bosch and, like Bosch, he always produced minutely detailed work. His postwar work, full of hermaphrodites, disabled veterans, skeletons, people suffering from syphilis, children, animals, and male and female genitalia, was characterised by the opposition between the vulnerability of nature and human aggression, and dealt with the theme of the eternal cycle of procreation and decay. In the late 1950s the genitalia in Melle’s work led the psychiatrist C. van Emde Boas to analyse his work, which caused a stir.
Melle was not so much a Painter’s Painter as a Writer’s Painter, and he became friends with Gerard Reve, Albert Helman and Theun de Vries who, like the publisher Geert van Oorschot, collected his work and declared themselves his fans. Thus Melle was one of the models for the painter Kade in Reve’s ‘De Avonden’, which provides a striking artistic and intellectual (group)portrait.
Да, мне тоже показалось, что не совсем сюрреализм. Боже мой, это же Нидерланды. От Арнема до Хертохен Босха, откуда Босх - минут сорок на поезде. Здесь это все в воздухе.
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Date: 2008-12-28 08:52 pm (UTC)Melle was not so much a Painter’s Painter as a Writer’s Painter, and he became friends with Gerard Reve, Albert Helman and Theun de Vries who, like the publisher Geert van Oorschot, collected his work and declared themselves his fans. Thus Melle was one of the models for the painter Kade in Reve’s ‘De Avonden’, which provides a striking artistic and intellectual (group)portrait.
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Date: 2008-12-28 09:01 pm (UTC)Спасибо, Миша.
Лена.