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Beautiful hand signed etching by Jean-Paul Vroom
Graphic (hand signed) 1979
Dimensions: 40 x 50 cm
Circulation 47/150
Jean-Paul Vroom (b. The Hague, 1922) received a solid vocational education as a child and his interest in everything that is "image", "appearance" and "reality", in whatever form, such as a painting, drawing, black-and-white or colour photo, slide, film, video, all kinds of forms of the printed image, etc., dates from a very early age.
Despite the fact that Vroom (he fled from the Germans to Paris in 1943 and stayed there for many years; until 1955) first painted in a lyrical-surrealist style, making so-called trompe l'oeil paintings on commission, for interiors etc. was always something he did "on the side". Illusionistic painting was a craft for him and against that background it is very understandable that Vroom is rather sceptical about the recent fuss about everything that paints super-, hyper-, hard-focus- or radically-realistic. Before 1964 he had already made a number of hyperrealistic paintings, such as the back of a stretched piece of painter's canvas, compositions with very illusionistically painted niches, pinned sheets of paper etc., but - at that time the abstract expressionism of the Cobra group, among others, was still the rage - it was hardly taken seriously.
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