Bram Bogart Paintings

Bram bogart primarily self taught is interested in the material possibilities of painting itself.

Bram bogart paintings. This biography is from wikipedia under an attribution sharealike creative commons license. Early in bram bogart s profession he experimented with figurative drawing and cubism. During this time he would focus on depicting flowers still life paintings and self portraits. So it was that marcel paquet introduced the last exhibition of bram bogart s new work in london some seventeen years ago.

Bram bogart was a dutch painter best known for his involvement in the art informel and cobra movements. Bogart s early experimentation with materials led him to create and use a concrete like mixture of oil varnish mortar raw pigment siccative powdered chalk and. Bram bogart july 12 1921 may 2 2012 was a belgian expressionist painter most closely associated with the cobra group. Find an in depth biography exhibitions original artworks for sale the latest news and sold auction prices.

Like contemporaries alberto burri antonio tapies or lucio fontana bogart challenges traditional notions of his mediums exploding and expanding his canvases and subjugating them to thick crusty applications of colorful paint. His paintings are characterized by their heavy impasto applications of color in patterns or loose shapes on thick wooden panels resulting in palpable and tactile textures. The dutch born belgian sculptor ceramist painter and graphic artist abraham van den bogaert bram van den boogaart later for short bram bogart was born 12 07 1921 in delft the netherlands. About bram s work is at the same time absolute abstract and completely aliveâ it has been able to give a purpose to my life.

Bram bogart was a dutch painter best known for his involvement in the art informel and cobra movements. Bram bogart july 12 1921 may 2 2012 was a dutch born belgian expressionist painter most closely associated with the cobra group. In the expressive paintings of dutch born belgian artist bram bogart 1921 2012 the focus is on paint as physical matter and the medium s material possibilities. Primarily an abstract artist bogart explored how the script of a painting or the non repetitive element of rhythmical brush strokes could imbue abstraction with meaning.

Bogart created his unique surfaces using a mixture of oil pigment mortar chalk and siccatives additives to help the thick paint dry more evenly and quickly. Engraving aquagravure on mould made paper signed and dated with embossed lettering bram bogart 92 lower right in the image and numbered 17 99 framed behind glass image size 104 x 121 cm frame size 121 x 139 5 cm. View bram bogart s 1 770 artworks on artnet. Bogart would use thick layers of boldly applied vibrant paint colors in his pieces.

His powerful work is a combination of the techniques of action painting and the art informal.