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2025-06-18

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2025-06-18

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2025-06-11

Sans Titre – 09-06-25 (Carole Lombard)

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Pitt Graphite Matt pencil (Faber-Castell) drawing on Hahnenmühle Ingres paper (24 x 31 x 0.1 cm)
Artist: Corné Akkers

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Another Carole

This graphite pencil drawing ‘Sans Titre – 09-06-25’ revisits American celebrity and moviestar Carole Lombard. More art deco-ish and less cubist, I guess. As to this one the amount of cubism is showing only mildly. That’s due to the usage of heavy chiaroscuro tones. Consequently there was little room for showing harsh and straight lines. Contour delineations were already blackened so many lines were incorporated into a perfect darkness. However, it still shows as a certain trademark personal to me. Which I came to call ‘Neo Deco’. That is because I think cubism is not the only aspect of this style I developed throughout the years.

Hollywood Photographer

Not the first time I drew her. Last time was in february of this year. Also on Ingres (Fabriano) and now on Hahnemühle’s. Perhaps I was just wondering how she would look like on this sort of paper. Ingres paper still is a favorite and a perfect reference picture I found was the inspirational source for this drawing. Which is Clarence Sinclair Bull’s by the way, a famous Hollywood photographer back in the day. So, thanks and respect to him. I simply adore those portrait side views and the reason for that is simple. These 1930s hairdos are nothing more than smashing pieces of art. Not even trying to imagine how much work have been put into these lush curly hairdos! They are perfect to cubist style them though. In Carole’s case there was a great tonal rhythym of white and dark areas cascading down her hair.
2025-06-05

Sans Titre – 02-06-25 (Jean Harlow)

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Pitt Graphite Matt pencil (Faber-Castell) drawing on Hahnenmühle Ingres paper (24 x 31 x 0.1 cm)
Artist: Corné Akkers

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American Celebrity and Moviestar

This graphite pencil drawing ‘Sans Titre – 02-06-25’ depicts American celebrity and moviestar Jean Harlow. A mixture of art deco and cubism really. She didn’t star in many movies but that’s due to her untimely death in 1937. Often called the successor to the worlds first sex symbol Clara Bow she was the predecessor of Marilyn Monroe. The more I draw those actresses of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, the more I realize there were so many. Not even included minor celebrities but Jean Harlow is far from being one. Instead she was the female opponent to famous male stars such as Clark Gable. Time to do her justice and give her a deserved slot in my Sans Titre hall of fame.

Some Abstractions

Captured in chiaroscuro settings by Hollywood photographer George Hurrell the reference picture inspired me to pull my cubist tricks on her. There were some crops in the composition and some abstractions as well. Personally I didn’t like the ruffles in the chair. In the lower right corner there were too many crumbly tonal extremities of stuff I couldn’t figure out. So I made them more easy to digest for my viewers. The focus is on the sheer dress and facial features and this brings me to the reason of this drawing. Two years ago I made a small series, called ‘Art Deco Nude’ basically kicking off my Neo Deco series with.
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2025-05-14

"Guitar with Inlays," Juan Gris, 1925.

And hello again to my favorite Cubist, Juan Gris (1887-1927). I've talked about him before so I won't repeat myself. He's been described as perhaps the purist Cubist; he died young and thus never moved away from the style.

Like many Cubists, he was fascinated by musical instruments, and being a Spaniard, it seems natural he'd be drawn to the guitar. Here we have a still life that's fairly representational but still undeniably Cubist, with a bowl of grapes, a pipe, a book (or is it sheet music?), and of course, the inlaid guitar.

This is an example of what became known as Synthetic Cubism, where they became more representational, but would also depict objects as being broken into component shapes, often asymmetrical and out of perspective, so while they're recognizable, they're still off-kilter. Gris does a good job with it.

From the Museo Nacional Centro Des Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.

#Art #Cubism #SyntheticCubism #JuanGris #Guitar #StillLife

A Cubist painting, depicting a still life with a recognizable guitar with black-and-white inlays, a footed bowl, a pipe, some sort of manuscript, and another bowl with grapes, on a table covered with a blue-and-black striped cloth. While more representational than some other Cubist works, it's still undeniably in that style.
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2025-05-13

Cuando tuvimos que hacer un retrato de nuestro profesor y director Roberto Orallo. He sido afortunada de tenerle de ambos.

dibujo a tinta y lápices acuarelables, retrato de Roberto Orallo inspirado en estilo cubista
Ele Willoughby, PhDminouette@spore.social
2025-04-29

Happy birthday #mathematician Henri Poincaré
(1854-1912), here in my Cubist #linocut portrait.

This print is about how movements in art can be connected with contemporary #math & #physics. Specifically, the way #Cubism breaks from a single favoured perspective or absolute frame of reference & breaks down subjects into geometrical shapes from multiple points of view can be tied to advancements in non-Euclidian geometry in math & special 🧵

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Cubism inspired linocut portrait of Henri Poincaré. The background is grey with brown, white and orange and lines and curves in dark blue. He wears a suit with bow tie in dark blue, has a beard and monocle and everything is broken into shapes and planes and his face in particular looks like it’s viewed from multiple perspectives simultaneously
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2025-04-28

Dreamy minecraft makeover, become cube now!

Minecraft but a frog double is taking over for a makeover
2025-04-27

#Caturday:
Jean Metzinger (France, 1883-1956)
Homme assis au chat (Seated Man with #Cat ), 1917-18
Oil on canvas, 12 3/5 x 16 1/10 in.
On display at Nassau County Museum of Art NY
#CatsInArt #Cubism

photo: closeup of the cat in the painting, black / grey / white in seated face forward posephoto of artwork in in gold lined white mat on display at museum - Jean Metzinger “Seated Man with Cat” oil painting in landscape orientation, colorful Cubist composition, cat in lower rightgallery label: “Jean Metzinger (1883-1956) Homme assis au chat (Seated Man with Cat), 1917-18 Oil on canvas 12 3/5 x 16 1/10 inches Collection of Arlene and Arthur S. Levine French painter and theorist Jean Metzinger contributed to the promotion of Cubism to the general public, more so than his contemporaries Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. He combined the Pointillist technique of Georges Seurat and Henri- Edmond Cross with the colorful Fauve aesthetic of Henri Matisse and Andre Derain, producing innovative compositions with modeled forms and multiple angles. Metzinger passionately advocated against traditional artistic approaches in such publications as Du cubisme (On Cubism), which he wrote with Albert Gleizes. Through his writing, he became one of the foremost theoreticians of the new avant-garde language, laying the theoretic foundations for Cubism. Through such paintings as this colorful composition, Metzinger captured a sense of pictorial dynamism and explored multiple perspectives, helping to bring about a shift in attitudes toward avant-garde art. ACM”
2025-04-24

Beek - 14-04-25

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Pitt Graphite Matt pencil (Faber-Castell, 14B) drawing on Hahnemühle Bamboo Sketch paper (21 x 29,7 x 0.1 cm)
Artist: Corné Akkers

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Natte Beek

This graphite pencil drawing ‘Beek – 14-04-25’ depicts a slighty cubist interpretation of an eponymous landscape. There’s this house called the ‘Natte Beek’ (‘Wet Rivulet’) which is funny. All rivulets, creeks or waters in general are wet, aren’t they? This actual spot is very well known to locals because it is a striking scenery. When you pass it via the Rijksstraatweg you’ll easily spot it. That’s because it is situated in an open field in the bushy hills of Beek. Many times I have seen it with childish curiosity sitting in a bus towards my grandmother in the Ooij. Especially in winter it looks like a gothic fairytale, looking forelorn in the woods. In summer it looks less threatening when meadows are all green. Spring has arrived and my outdoors sketching inclinations are growing. Therefor I thought it would be a good start using this spot as artistic motif.

Paper Strucure

Quite a while now since I made a last landscape really. My last one of Beek showed the old and the new Bartholomeuskerk in a cubistic approach. This time I had it in me to combine impressionism with cubism. This feeling appeared to exactly match the presupposition I had with regard to this Hahnemühle Bamboo sketch paper. Rather grainy of structure reacting to my pencil made me think of Ingres paper of the same brand. It happened to be that my soft 14B pencil scratched across the paper like a knife cuts through soft butter. Even rubbed out with a stump the structures still looked broken.
2025-04-22

Berg en Dal - 21-04-25

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Pitt Graphite Matt pencil (Faber-Castell, 14B) drawing on Talens Bristol paper (21 x 29,7 x 0.1 cm)
Artist: Corné Akkers

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My Favorite Spot

This graphite pencil drawing ‘Berg en Dal – 21-04-25’ is my next landscape endeavour after the previous one, called ‘Beek – 14-04-25’. Cubism meets impressionism once more. The title is a bit arbitrary because I think it might also be part of Beek. Ubbergen, Berg en Dal, Groesbeek, Beek and even Ooij are all part now of the bigger municipality Berg en Dal. Therefor it doesn’t matter really. Since I gave a couple of drawings and pastels the same title I think it’s fair enough. They are made in the same area as this one, which offers a view on the Boterberg positioned to the left. In fact ‘Berg en Dal – 25-10-23’ is a vista on hill in the center to the right. This must be my favorite spot. Probably since 1980 when I visited it for the first time with my parents.

Not Fully in Leaf Yet

The reference photo I took some weeks ago when the trees were not in leaf yet. Only some pines on the Boterberg show some darker leafy planes. Even though there weren’t many leaves yet, tree branches show subtle bifuractions. Especially when the outer ends already show buds their outlines tend to appear as beautiful bulged structures. Certainly, similar to abstract geometric shapes and I simply love those. When trees are fully in leaf often they block the view too much. You simply can’t suggest depth between trees too much anymore. My aim though was to depict the structures of the hilly slopes and treescapes altogether. So was right on time.
2025-04-21

Veere – 24-03-20

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Graphite pencil drawing (Pentel 0.5 mm, 3B) on Canson Bristol paper (21 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm - A4 format)
Artist: Corné Akkers

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Typical Zeeland

This graphite pencil drawing ‘Veere – 24-03-20’ is the third I drew of this place. I delved into some pictures of tours I took last yea. Then I found one appealing picture of the Grote Kerk at Veere, Zeeland, Netherlands. Too early for trees to show leafs really. However, the light already brings the promise of Spring. I kept the drawing rather sketchy, especially in the background. By that I managed to keep the Grote Kerk towering over Veere rather airy. Consequently the bare tree in the foreground contrasts the church more than in my graphite pencil drawing Rijswijk – 04-12-15. The latter was meant to create a rhythym of straight and curved lines entwined with lesser need to suggest depth. This one needed more though. Both drawings show the branches with a touch of roundism styling. On the other hand the cobblestones turned out rather impressionistic for some reason.

Strange Days Indeed

These unusual Corona times cause people to search for new ways to keep their minds busy. Some told me they binge watch or take virtual tours online, others turn to books still waiting for them. As an artist I just turn to what I do best for all these years: drawing and painting. Surely I feel blessed that what I usually do (creating) still is the core business I can continue. Selling art is a different story though. I hope there will still be a market for my works of art in times of lockdowns and fear for the pandemic.
2025-04-17

Sans Titre - 07–04-25 (Greta Garbo)

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Colored pencil drawing on Aurora Coloured Drawing paper (21 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm - A4 format)
Artist: Corné Akkers

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Enigmatic Star

This colored pencil drawing ‘Sans Titre – 07-04-25’ depicts Swedish celebrity moviestar Greta Garbo. Enigmatic, illusive, lonesome yet strong, intriguing and even bestowed with comic talent in Ninotchka. She halted her movie carreer in 1941 only to live her life in obscurity until her death in 1990. Most fascinating! Consequently her name carries many mysteries. Then again, a great mystery why I didn’t came to draw her before. I don’t know really. Always on my bucket list for sure. Postponing yes until I came acrosss this very iconic photograph taken in the 1930s I think. That was the one I was looking for. Full of chiaroscuro and heavily art deco style driven one could say. Unfortunately these kind of photography doesn’t exist anymore today and I don’t now superstars personally. Time to dare taking on Greta’s Portrait.

Color Combinations

Last of Jean Muir was in yellow. This time I picked pink. You know, I had it in me to do this one in straight cubist planes right from the start. Dire green or freezing blue only would make her portrait more stern than it had to be. Pink would soothe her elegant yet strict appearance a bit. Next to this, I also knew I had to do this one in green, black and white colored pencil right away. Green would gray against the pink in a suiting manner. The idea was to search for a right combination of pink and green mostly whereas black would block them both in.
2025-04-12

Chagall

The Poet (Half Past Three), 1911

#OldMasters #Painting #Caturday #cubism

A rather akimbo and abstract composition in this painting, even for Chagall. The subject, presumably the poet in the title, has a green head that is upside down. There is an akimbo bottle, so perhaps drink is the situation. A tuxedo cat sits next to the man.

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