A monotype is a one-off print in which a smooth surface is painted with acrylic paint, oil paint or printing ink. A sheet of paper is then placed on top of it. Rubbing on the back of the paper creates…
Twenty-five years ago Hans Broek (Veenendaal, 1965) brought new life to landscape painting with his vast panoramas of the American West Coast. Various examples of this work can be found in De Pont's…
For Bird Nose Count (2020), Kasper Bosmans was inspired by the paintings of the 17 th -century artist Melchior d’Hondecoeter. Those works feature groups of birds that could only be seen together in…
Though not weaned from an occasional hint of sentiment , his work is characterized by irony and relativism. Birza takes pleasure in toying subversively with painterly values and norms, while paying…
Between 1977 and 1987, the year in which he suffered a stroke, René Daniëls, created one of the most intriguing oeuvres in the postwar art of the Netherlands. His work is both humorous and enigmatic.…
Tuymans painted The Worshipper in 1994 for an exhibition in which the subjects were derived from the annual carnival in the Walloon town of Binche, a world-renowned tradition dating back to the 14th…
Selected works by Marc Mulders from De Pont's collection will be presented in connection with the publication of Marc Mulders, works 1980 - 2020 , which includes the essay by Anneke van Wolfswinkel…
Jan van Duijnhoven (Uden, 1944) celebrates light. Every day he observes sunlight in order to paint its optical refraction into the spectrum colors red, yellow and blue, plus white. When we look into…
One can ‘read’ Scully’s paintings both abstractly and figuratively. The series Doric , for instance, which he began in 2008, is dedicated to Greece and architecture. It can be seen as an ode to…