DEATH:
1928 TOOROP |
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Died on 03 March 1928 Theodoor
Jan Toorop, Dutch Symbolist painter born on 20 December
1858. [Vous ne trouvez pas qu'il y a des O de Trop dans son nom?] Dutch painter, born in Java. Studied art in Delft and Amsterdam. A grant allowed him to study in Brussels, where he came into contact with the XX group, and became a member in 1885. He befriended Khnopff, Ensor and de Groux. In 1886, he met Whistler in London. He discovered the Pre-Raphaelites and William Morris' views on art and socialism. In 1890 he developed his own version of Symbolism using elements of a Javanese aesthetic. Met Péladan in 1892. In 1905 converted to Catholicism. His themes thereafter became religious and even mystic. His style simplified and he adopted a technique close to Pointillisme, which he put at the service of a fragmentation of the surface of the painting at poles from the measured unity to which Seurat aspired. These fragmentary surfaces relate Toorop to Expressionism. O grave, where is thy Victory (1892, 62x76cm) _ Two angels are removing thorns from a corpse coveted by the forces of Evil, on the right. The curved lines express good, the broken lines evil. Poster for Delftsche Slaolie, (1894) The Sea (1887) The Seduction (1886, 67x77cm) Les Calvinistes de Catwijck (1891; 68x78cm) Also known as Hell and Doubt or Old Superstitious Dreamers. The Young Generation (1892) Le Passeur d'eau (1895) _ A book illustration for the poem of Émile Verhaeren (21 May 1855 27 Nov 1916). |