Art Kudos Award The Art Kudos is yearly international competition. The goal is to create a podium for art that excels in quality. Each year a profesional jury is assembled to award the prizes. In 2005 I received this honor. I was awarded ‘The ‘Art Kudos – Best of Show Award’ for the painting ‘Spirit Lees verder…
Herman Smorenburg: Timeless realities It was Gustave Courbet who introduced the style term of Realism during the Paris World Exhibition in 1855. Since then numerous movements within this framework have made their appearance. Carel Willink who was linked to the term magic realism, although he preferred to chose fantastic realism, reached back to the traditional Lees verder…
Inspiratie ‘The man who never in his mind and thoughts traveled to heaven is no artist’. William Blake. Door de eeuwen heen is de kunstenaar beschouwd als een soort middelaar tussen hemel en aarde door mensen die geconfronteerd werden met de raadselachtige, vaak bovennatuurlijk lijkende, creatieve gave van uniek getalenteerde individuen. Inderdaad is de uitkomst Lees verder…