Jurjen de Haan - Lithograph, Abstract work.

Jurjen de Haan (The Hague, 1936 - 2018)
Jurjen de Haan initially focused on photorealism and gradually began to focus more on large, multi-coloured abstract paintings that evoke an imaginative and slightly carefree world. Until 1988-1989, busy, moving lines filled the colour planes and gave the surface of the painting a dancing or swaying suggestion. In his most recent work, the background is often an almost uniform colour plane (often grey), or two colour planes against each other. Against this background, closed shapes emerge, often composed of intense colours, which nevertheless find their balance in the total composition. The shapes are often surrounded by a contour line, but sometimes the colours are so strong that they do not need this boundary. Every now and then a colour plane is enriched with patterns in contrasting colours. Jurjen de Haan likes to paint on large canvases. A size of 200 x 200 cm is no exception. But he also paints narrow upright or horizontal or triangular canvases. Everything is painted wet-on-wet, although it often seems as if the sensitive nuances have been created after a long process of drying and painting over, layer upon layer.