Abstract Compositie

Abstract Compositie

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Kunsthandel D.J. Zeeman
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Name
Abstract Compositie
Measurements
Height: 48 cm, Width: 34 cm
Reference
KDZA10035
Makers
M (Mogens) Balle (creator)
Techniques
Gouache
Colors
Red, Blue, Green, Black, White, Yellow, Purple, Brown
Categories
Fine Art Drawings & Watercolours
Materials
Paper
Styles
Abstract Abstract
Periods
20th Century Contemporary 1986
Origins
Denmark
Condition Note
Very good
Origin and period
Privat collection Denmark
Subject
Abstract Architecture
Description
“Mogens Balle (1921–1988) is an artist from Copenhagen. Mogens Balle began with a training in architecture and finished his studies in painting, in a private institution. His time in the French capital influenced his orientation towards Picasso’s cubism and inaugurated a style in the artistic vein. In 1947, during the Spirale fair, he met Asger Jorn who invited him to join the Cobra group. His various inspirations include Ejler Bille, Egill Jacobsen, Carl-Henning Pedersen and Asger Jorn. Mogens Balle claims a breach from surrealistic-figurative painting and Danish surrealism, the aim of the Cobra movement. The entire inner notion is toned down. He shapes the abstract-surrealistic movement, celebrating material spontaneity, merging surrealistic automatism with abstract. Asger Jorn named their entity as “Danish experiment”. Mogens Balle illustrated texts of Noiret, Harder and collaborated with Dotremont on word paintings. He signed twelve issues of the Helhesten magazine, ancestor of the Cobra magazine (mixing popular art, ethnology, cinema, photography and painting).”

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