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Portrait of Erik Renssen, Dutch artist
Duration:
4 minutes and 50 seconds
Country:
Netherlands
Language:
English
Genre:
Documentary
Producer:
PictureThis.tv
Director:
Eelco Romeijn
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294
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Posted by:
picturethis.tv on Dec 7, 2008
Portrait of a Dutch painter for smaakrijk.info Portret van een kunstschilder voor smaakrijk.com See more of his work on: renssen-art.com
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- This is called "woman with towel"
- She is drying her back
- I have made this because i like to play with shapes and...
- I have tried to keep it as abstract as possible.
- My name is Erik Renssen, I live in Broek in Waterland...
- I have a wife and two kids and I am a painter.
- I like to struggle with a piece but it also has to have some spontaneousness.
- It must represent strength, it has to burn into your memory when you leave it... That's important.
- I try to confuse the mind...
- that's the essence of my work, and it has to have some humour!
- Always Jazz, I always play Oscar Peterson or Miles Davis when I work.
- it has a certain rhythm that's nice to paint on, it may sound silly but I enjoy that!
- I'm swinging around!
- Sometimes when I plan to paint a nude...
- while drawing, I sometimes see something new in the picture...
- this may illustrate the creation process.
- This work behind me for example...
- I'm working on that at the moment..
- I was drawing it with charcoal...
- then I added some figures...
- wich turned out to be a bed baluster...
- So, that's when i decided to make it a nude on a bed!
- So while working you discover things that you don't know of yourself.
- In my work I try to surprise people...
- with strange shapes or strange colours...
- people may even be shocked by what they see.
- Yes, I like women. Can't get enough watching them, that's for sure!
- You have to put it on the canvas in one stroke, that's the power of this work...
- painting with a fast, direct stroke.
- Manytimes I am surprised what comes out of my hands...
- when I'm painting it feels like mysterious things happen...
- Where does it come from? I have no idea!
- While I'm working and I'm in the right flow, I loose all sense of time.
- I am litterally in the picture myself!
- I'm inspired by ordinary things...
- the things around me in the workshop, no matter how simple..
- and when I see the children play, I could easily make something nice from it.
- even the dog running around, it doesn't matter! Just simple things.
- Like this canvas here, I like to work at it because...
- it's long, big, exiting, erotic, it has it all.


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