After the preparatory stage in the Conterfeyter studio, finally the time has come to start with the actual painting activities in Galerij Prins Willem V. And what a place to be! Continue reading “Diogenes (08)”
Month: July 2017
Diogenes (07)
After working on the preparatory stage of the Diogenes painting, today it is due time to transport the painting from the Conterfeyter studio to the Galerij Prins Willem V in the historic part of town. Continue reading “Diogenes (07)”
Diogenes (06)
Remarkably, the working process of this new Conterfeyter painting about Diogenes will start by picking up a piercer and sticking a hole in the canvas. Continue reading “Diogenes (06)”
Diogenes (05)
In the seventeenth century studio practice, artists bought their raw materials, such as different types of powder pigments at the local pharmacies. Continue reading “Diogenes (05)”
Diogenes (04)
Although canvas as a support for painting was already common in Ancient Egypt, its use as a support for large sized oil paintings was introduced in Italy not earlier than by the end of the fifteenth century. Continue reading “Diogenes (04)”
Diogenes (03)
Considering the anachronistic 17th century ‘Diogenes’ painting by Caesar van Everdingen, exhibited on one of the walls of the Galerij Prins Willem V, suddenly in the head of this nowadays painter the idea came on to make a new 21st century version of this classic story, Continue reading “Diogenes (03)”
Diogenes (02)
It seems clear, however, that Diogenes of Sinope, the true archetype of the Cynic philosophers, believed that possessions were a trap and what people called `manners’ were simply lies used to hide the true nature of the individual. Continue reading “Diogenes (02)”
Diogenes (01)
The oldest part of the unique collection of the Mauritshuis in Den Haag consists of paintings that used to be owned by stadtholder Willem V, prince of Oranje-Nassau (1748-1806). Willem started collecting art at a young age. Continue reading “Diogenes (01)”