Raoul De Keyser, triptych – oil on canvas, 1971
The Belgian Raoul De Keyser is among one of the prominent artists of the New Vision. His fundamental painting offers a pictorial value to reality. He steps out of anecdotes by endlessly abstracting what he sees. This minimal thinking leads to a conceptualisation process that thins out all tension between form and content. Like an inquisitive artist, his focus shifts throughout his career from recognisable forms to the essence of matter.
In this monumental and only triptych within his oeuvre, called ‘Veldoefening met slice’, you notice the growing urge to expand, until only the paint texture is important in the work. The landscape blurs and the form loses its meaning until only the essence of the structure remains. Within his oeuvre, this work marks the tipping point towards more abstraction, but still with a tight line pattern.
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