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Jan De Clerck

Jan De Clerck (1881 - 1962) was active/lived in Holland.  Jan De Clerck is known for Abstract symbolic landscapes and seascapes, pointillism.

Born in Ostend, Holland Jan de Clerck studied briefly with the painter Camille Payen in Brussels around the turn of the century, but was, for the most part, self-taught. He was much influenced by the exhibitions organized by the group La Libre Esthétique, and his first paintings date from the late 1890s.

Quickly gaining in confidence and ability, De Clerck first exhibited his paintings in 1905. He soon developed an original technique of a sort of elongated pointillism of striped brushstrokes, producing landscapes and seascapes tinged with a Symbolist* aesthetic. As one modern writer has noted of the artist, de Clerck 'adapted pointillism* and the concentration of light to produce his own technique, often worked in mixed media, of dragging the paint with short vertical strokes in order to build up the surface of the picture.

This individual technique De Clerck made virtually his own and much of his best work up to circa 1920 is painted in this way.' In 1908, frustrated w   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2939 characters.]  Artist bio

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