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Artists from A-Z Thé van Bergen

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  • de luidsprekers [the loudspeakers] (2021)
    de luidsprekers [the loudspeakers]
    Artist: Thé van Bergen Dating: 2021 Type: Work on paper Material: Pencil and color pencil on paper Measures: 21,1 x 29,7 cm Acces / purchase date: 2023 Inventory number: 1736
  • de jongleurs [the jugglers] (2018)
    de jongleurs [the jugglers]
    Artist: Thé van Bergen Dating: 2018 Type: Work on paper Material: Pencil and color pencil on paper Measures: 21 x 29,7 cm Acces / purchase date: 2023 Inventory number: 1735
  • de trappen [the stairs] (2018)
    de trappen [the stairs]
    Artist: Thé van Bergen Dating: 2018 Type: Work on paper Material: Pencil and color pencil on paper Measures: 29,6 x 21 cm Acces / purchase date: 2023 Inventory number: 1734
  • de greep [the grip] (2020)
    de greep [the grip]
    Artist: Thé van Bergen Dating: 2020 Type: Work on paper Material: Pencil and color pencil on paper Measures: 21,1 x 29,7 cm Acces / purchase date: 2023 Inventory number: 1733
  • de jongleurs (3) [the jugglers (3)] (2021)
    de jongleurs (3) [the jugglers (3)]
    Artist: Thé van Bergen Dating: 2021 Type: Work on paper Material: Pencil and color pencil on paper Measures: 29,7 x 21 cm Acces / purchase date: 2023 Inventory number: 1732
  • de tobben [the tubs] (2020)
    de tobben [the tubs]
    Artist: Thé van Bergen Dating: 2020 Type: Work on paper Material: Pencil and color pencil on paper Measures: 29,7 x 20,9 cm Acces / purchase date: 2023 Inventory number: 1731
  • het hoofd [the head] (2021)
    het hoofd [the head]
    Artist: Thé van Bergen Dating: 2021 Type: Painting Material: Oil on canvas Measures: 70,5 x 55 cm Acces / purchase date: 2023 Inventory number: 1730
  • het half open venster [the half-open window] (2020-2021)
    het half open venster [the half-open window]
    Artist: Thé van Bergen Dating: 2020-2021 Type: Painting Material: Oil on canvas Measures: 100,5 x 100,3 cm Acces / purchase date: 2023 Inventory number: 1729
The artist is direct and fundamental in that which is depicted, and direct and uncompromising in how it ends up on the canvas. Between arriving and leaving in his studio there is sometimes the heater, in the winter months, but always there is the radio to "dash to the rhythm" and the desire for that which he calls "a new experience." His painting is an attempt to "liquidate" that which irritates as spontaneously as possible with that which is at hand; by, say, moving from in one direction transversely to another on the canvas with finger or brush, making a "movementagainst movement red-white 3" or a "circular movement clockwise" with stroke or smudge; by working that which was already there off the canvas with one intense gesture, creating the possibility of a new beginning and ultimately an image. See the leg of "the chair" that initially also held "the table" or a stem of a flower and thus "the garden." Or look at the many layers of paint, the rows of years and the recurring motifs to which the works bear witness.