During the 1920s, Gustave Van de Woestyne incorporated the influences of cubism and expressionism into a personal compromise. The artist's writing is defined by a distinct sense of synthesis in which forms are greatly simplified and deformation is not shunned. This makes his work from the postwar period akin to Neorealism. However, his work retains a meditative character, full of symbolism and wonder, and even betrays surrealist intentions around 1930. In the paintings shown here, van de Woestyne brought together elements of everyday bourgeois existence. As a technique, he uses gouache, which was particularly popular in 1920s modernism.
Artist | Gustave Van de WoestyneRKDVIAFWikidata |
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Title | Still life with Cineraria |
Date | 1922 |
Period | 20th century |
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signature and year bottom right: GVE VAN DE WOESTYNE / 1922 |
Collection | print room |
Object type | gouache AAT |
Inventory number | 2004-G |
Acquisition credit | purchase van de Woestijne, Odile Kessel-Lo 2004 |
Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2004-G |
IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/5511/manifest.json |