Jan Verdoodt

Jan Verdoodt (1908–1980) came from Sint-Pieters-Jette in Belgium. He attended the Academie van Sint-Jans-Molenbeek from 1926, under Frans Persoons, where he was attracted equally by Realism (in the work of Eugène Laermans) and Surrealism (in Magritte's paintings). He developed his own style by combining these two schools, creating 'a kind of magic realism in which dream and reality, woman and nature, were intimately bound together'.

Career

He began work as an apprentice in a lithography studio and became a photo-engraver. He produced portraits, self-portraits, still life paintings and landscapes, and was a founding member of the Cercle Jecta in 1938 (Magritte was also a member).

His work has been acquired by the Belgian state and by the province of Brabant, and he has given his name to a road in Jette and to a path in the Parc Baudouin.

gollark: Motion JPEG, which is just a bunch of JPEGs concatted together, actually is a video format which exists and is (was?) used by a few things for some bizarre reason.
gollark: Just pour water on the CPU every few minutes.
gollark: You can get passive coolers too, there's a cheap ~45W one.
gollark: Yes. Yes it should.
gollark: I have never read this "homestuck".

See also

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.