Struycken, an abstract painter, talks about Vermeer, the "painter's painter". Quoted with permission from private correspondence with Kaldenbach.
"There
are Vermeer questions which have occupied me for a long time
[...]. These concern various degrees of abstraction within a
painting. Vermeer often paints a chequered marble floor with streaks
of paint in a way which makes one think of a house painter or a
decoration painter who imitates marble. In the same painting other
parts are depicted in quite a different way. Some parts will be
rendered in a more imitative or detailed way.
His handling of colour is peculiar. Within a painting various colour relationships appear which are reserved to separate sections of the painting. Take for instance his "paintings within a painting". These are separate fields which have an inner balance which is not repeated elsewhere. Taken to extremes one could say a Vermeer painting (sometimes) seems to have been made up of different philosophies about the colour balance.
I am expressing this to you in order to stress the importance I feel for philosophies and considerations which lead to decisions in creating a work of art."
Fragment of a letter from Struycken to Kaldenbach, 30 July 2000
See the experimental design phases by Struycken with various portraits of the queen on a separate page!
Computers & Design: See V2 Institute for instable media.
See also High School of Arts & Design, Utrecht.
Heimat far another combination of art & technology.
More about the author Kaldenbach click author.
Text copyright Peter Struycken, 2000.