The Creation
A modern artist who painted his personal story of creation in the traditional form of a triptych. Moreover, someone who worked in such detail that on an area of 75 square meters, every petal was brought out with only a few brush hairs. Things that indicate that Evert Thielen certainly did not make it easy for himself while painting The Creation. A project on which he worked for five years; Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in a shorter period of time. It is tempting to look for the rationale behind this painting. Can The Creation be considered an ultimate achievement of this artist? Or does that thought go too far, and does it primarily constitute a successful symbiosis between Thielen's thinking and work, in which time and tradition seem to be inseparable.
A modern artist who painted his personal story of creation in the traditional form of a triptych. Moreover, someone who worked in such detail that on an area of 75 square meters, every petal was brought out with only a few brush hairs. Things that indicate that Evert Thielen certainly did not make it easy for himself while painting The Creation. A project on which he worked for five years; Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in a shorter period of time. It is tempting to look for the rationale behind this painting. Can The Creation be considered an ultimate achievement of this artist? Or does that thought go too far, and does it primarily constitute a successful symbiosis between Thielen's thinking and work, in which time and tradition seem to be inseparable.
A modern artist who painted his personal story of creation in the traditional form of a triptych. Moreover, someone who worked in such detail that on an area of 75 square meters, every petal was brought out with only a few brush hairs. Things that indicate that Evert Thielen certainly did not make it easy for himself while painting The Creation. A project on which he worked for five years; Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in a shorter period of time. It is tempting to look for the rationale behind this painting. Can The Creation be considered an ultimate achievement of this artist? Or does that thought go too far, and does it primarily constitute a successful symbiosis between Thielen's thinking and work, in which time and tradition seem to be inseparable.
1993 / Dutch / Paperback / 21 x 29.6 / 16 pages