Showing posts with label painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label painting. Show all posts

Re:Rotterdam 2012


"On the 8th of February the second contemporary art fair Re:Rotterdam will commence. This event will be held simultaneously to Art Rotterdam, just around the corner at the Boompjes 60-68 in Rotterdam, NL."

Joost Krijnen and myself are showing our work on the 4th floor.

Joost Krijnen, 'Two politicians attacking a performance artist',
2012, acrylic on paper, 325 x 453 mm

31 January, 2012 , , , , ,

Michiel van der Zanden @ Art Amsterdam 2011 pt. 2



Art Amsterdam was one great experience! Thanks to all my friends who helped out, everybody at HEDEN and those who dropped by!

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17 May, 2011 , , , , , ,

Michiel van der Zanden @ Art Amsterdam 2011



Proudly to announce my solo presentation at Art Amsterdam 2011! You can find my work at HEDEN, stand 058.

It will be a painting exhibition presented inside an installation, the rest is still a surprise. Hope to see you there!

Art Amsterdam
11 - 15 May 2011

More info on www.artamsterdam.nl and www.heden.nl



The official Art Amsterdam poster showing a young artist in his studio (by Jasper de Beijer)

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14 April, 2011 , , , ,

Interview: Michiel van der Zanden's Videogames on Canvas


WWW.GAMESCENES.ORG is a blog about art in the age of videogames. This is an interview I had by E-mail earlier this year, with Mathias Jansson, one of the contributors of www.gamescenes.org.

->LINK!

28 February, 2011 , , , , , ,

Ten Words and One Shot


WW.TENWORDSANDONESHOT.COM is an artblog owned by Kevin Krumnikl, designer and art collector / enthusiast. On this blog, artists are invited to send in one photo of their studio and give a response to 10 given words. There's an update every 2-3 days. After each 100 artists, there will be a publication in book form.
Today, www.tenwordsandoneshot.com posted a shot of my studio and my response to the ten words: www.tenwordsandoneshot.com/michiel-van-der-zanden/

Here's an interview with the man behind tenwordsandoneshot.com.

05 January, 2011 , , , ,

Challenging the Myth of the Painter



outLINE Amsterdam presents: 'Challenging the Myth of the Painter'. A group exhibition of 20 painters connected with PRESENTeert, a pamphlet on painting.

From 24 October till 20 November
(Opening Sunday 24 October from 16:00 till 18:00)
A 'special event' Wednesday 17 November 20:00. More on this in the near future...

More info on www.outlineamsterdam.nl and www.presenteert.wordpress.com

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18 October, 2010 , , , ,

NEW WORKS

Computer Rock, 2010, 55 x 50 cm. Oil paint on canvas

Recreation # 3, 2010, 145 x 190 cm. Acrylic- and oil paint on canvas

Background, 2010, 130 x 175 cm. Acrylic- and oil paint on canvas

Softijs, 2010, 65 x 35 cm. Oil on canvas

Recreation # 2, 2010, 145 x 190 cm. Acrylic- and oil paint on canvas

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17 October, 2010 ,

Studio Time 2

15 July, 2010 , ,

Still Life

The original: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571 - 1610)
Basket of Fruit (c. 1596) Oil on canvas 46 x 64 cm.

Found this one online. Etérea Studios is a Spanish graphic and animation studio working with 'CGI' (Computer Generated Images).

"In this work, I tried to take a classic artwork and interpret it using nothing but digital artistry. Here I present the result, 400 years after the great Carravagio made his original oil-painting."

Digital model (detail)

Wireframe, model (detail)

Wireframe total

Final render


Website Eterea Studios: www.etereaestudios.com
Just like LEGO, Etéria is inprired by Frank Loyd Wright, check their Fallingwater project here.

19 April, 2010 , , , ,

Painting LargeFlatMap100 (The Sims 3) BETA

After days of struggling with The Sims 3™, Sims Create-A-World-Tool, S3PE Package Editor and various editing software, I managed to finish my first version of this video, 'Painting FlatMap100 (The Sims 3)'.

In a self-created empty world (using Create-A-World-Tool), I made a senior Sim paint the landscape. This landscape painting is a screenshot I captured within the same world. I replaced the original Sims 3 painting with my screenshot, using the S3PE modding editor.

Painting LargeFlatMap100 (The Sims 3), 2010, Digital Video, 4:41 min from Michiel van der Zanden on Vimeo.

17 March, 2010 , , , , , , ,

Magritte using DupliVerts

Golconde, 1953, 81 x 100 cm.

In line with the vision of Magritte's surrealism, this cool Blender 3D tutorial about DupliVerts (duplication of objects) by wiki.blender.org. You can find it here.

"In every vertex of the circle a man is placed."

"Changing the size of the circle in Edit mode."

"Positive Z axis is aligned to normal (weird, huh?)."

17 January, 2010 , , , , ,

Since Day One


1981...

30 October, 2009 , ,

Display, 2009




Display, 2009, digital video, looped. 1:00 min., no sound

My new video, based on traditional landscape paintings. It also shows my painted-over farmhouse model.

Some while ago, I was caught by a romantic landscape painting, which represented a watermill in a picturesque scenery...Because I had just started to work with the digital 3D creation program Blender 3D, I thought it would be a nice idea to re-create a traditional landscape painting: In a digital form, but with using painted parts.
I decided to realize a part of this idea by making a model, typical for the landscape were I'm from: Noord-Brabant. So for a starting point, I took an old “kortgevelboerderij” (farmhouse with a short front: characteristic for this part of The Netherlands). In Blender 3D, I made a simple digital model of it, inspired by traditional landscape paintings. On this model, I put textures, all cut out from pictures of different paintings. This process of 3D-modelling resulted in several ‘rendered’ images.
These images of the digital model were used as sketches, and translated into a real-life model in wood (Thx MU project-team!). The dimensions of it, are about 110 x 120 x 100 (h x l x w) in cm's.
The next step was to paint the model, first with universal primer, and then with acrylic paint plus a 'thickening' medium. Because I also wanted to scale up the brushstrokes, I spent at least 15 liters of this thick paint, applied with big brushes.
(See picture, and June 18th post: Hier & Daar exhibition, MU, Eindhoven and Kop Foundation, Breda).

Boerderij, 2009, 110 x 120 x 100 cm. Acrylic paint on wood/ MDF
@ MU, Eindhoven

The photos I made, of my finished, painted farmhouse, I put back on the original digital farmhouse model, in Blender 3D. The rest of the Romantic scenery was also built in Blender, by using different images of paintings I found online. By doing so, I completed my ‘painting’.
Blender 3D is also ideal for making animations and interactive applications. So I showed the different elements in the painting, as single objects. These objects are displayed in a rotating manner, as in a showroom, or on a (market-) stand: The objects slowly rotate 360 degrees, and turn the other way around, into their old position. The video is looped with the intention of being an film equivalent of a painting, which is always a still representation: There’s only one camera position, no start or end.
Also, there’s no sound in the video, the choice to do that, is a conscious one, I didn’t want to add too much ‘effect’ to it. The total silence is strong and present in its own way.

Michiel van der Zanden, 2009


22 September, 2009 , , , , ,

Van Gogh Huis, Zundert


Van Gogh

De markt, Zundert

"Is die friettent van jou? Nee van de Rabobank. En hedde da gezien, di zen gin aardappeleters mar frieteters..."

Van Vught

Van Vught en Van Gogh, Van 5 september tot en met 24 januari.

Vincent van Gogh Huis,
Markt 27, Zundert

20 September, 2009 , , , ,

Pac Mondrian


Found online: PAC MONDRIAN
"Pac-Mondrian closes the perceptual distance between fine art and video games by combining Piet Mondrian's Modernist masterpiece 'Broadway Boogie Woogie' with Toru Iwatani's classic video game Pac-Man. The two new Ms. Pac-Mondrian levels return the painting to the dance clubs that inspired it with music by contemporary techno musicians mapping the birth of electronic music in their home towns."

http://pbfb.ca/pac-mondrian/

Ingame

17 September, 2009 , , , , ,

^^

Found in Prague a couple of years ago:

"UP TO 60 % OFF OIL PAINTINGS"

14 September, 2009 , , ,

Dutch Golden Age


I noticed that a lot of sceneries in Empire Total War (PC-game, 2009), show similarities with 17th century seascape paintings.


Dutch Masters

Abraham Storck (Amsterdam, 1644 - 1708). "Het fregat Pieter en Paul op het IJ." 1698-1700

Empire Total War (PC-game, 2009)


Empire Total War gameplay. Dutch Provinces vs France

20 August, 2009 , , , , , , ,

CCTV (Closed-circuit television)


Painting update. Camera security at the Military Museum. (Also check February's post).

CCTV, 2009, 40 x 50 cm. Oil, acrylic on canvas

Heroes (Military Museum), 2009, 165 x 120 cm. Oil, acrylic on canvas

06 August, 2009 , , , , ,

Fantastic Damage


I visited the Venice Biennial a couple of weeks ago. This piece by Michelangelo Pistoletto (great name!) was one of the first I saw there, and I was instantly impressed by the simplicity and effectiveness of it. Pistoletto uses the mirror, which is a traditional object and recurring theme in the history of art. The mirrors are brutally vandalised, with large holes and cracks in them, and splinters lying all around. Although presented in a quiet way, you could still feel the action.

Michelangelo Pistoletto, 'Twenty-two Less Two', 2009. Mirrors, wood, 22 pieces.

29 July, 2009 , , , , , ,

Preview 2



1. Boerderij model @ MU

More new stuff, for the Hier & Daar expo in Mu Eindhoven and KOP Breda.

I modeled a digital 3D model of a farmhouse in Blender (picture 2), based on different landscape paintings (especially the ones from Noord-Brabant). The textures I used in this model, are from my own MDF model (picture 1, 120 x 100 x 80 cm.). I think I used about 15 litres of paint for it.
Special thx to Jacki.


2. Farmhouse digital model, unfinished


3. Newspaper (Eindhovens Dagblad) article about the exhibition

'Hier & Daar' 20 artists and designers from Breda and Eindhoven show new work at Kop Foundation and MU.

MU Eindhoven, Stichting KOP Breda.

www.mu.nl
www.stichtingkop.nl

25 June – 23 August 2009 (1st opening: Friday 26 June, 2nd opening Saturday 25 July)


18 June, 2009 , , , , , ,
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