Wim Heldens' heroes : de betekenis van de modellen in Heldens' realisme = The significance of the models in Heldens' realism / tekst: John Borstlap, Galerie Mooiman male-art

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heldens, Wim, 1954- artist.

Borstlap, John, author.

Contributor:

Galerie MooiMan (Groningen, Netherlands)

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

Dutch

English

Subjects (All):

Heldens, Wim, 1954-.

Painting, Dutch.

Realism in art.

Local Subjects:

Heldens, Wim, 1954-.

Physical Description:

60 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Significance of the models in Heldens' realism

Place of Publication:

Groningen : Studio van Stralen, 2022

Language Note:

In Dutch and English

Summary:

In 'Wim Heldens' Heroes', an extensive selection is shown of the work of remarkable Amsterdam artist Wim Heldens, together with descriptions of the various backgrounds from which the painter drew his inspiration. Also is added a complete overview of Heldens' work 1974 2022. In 1998 Wim Heldens won the Menena Joy Schwabe Award of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (Mall Galleries/National Portrait Gallery) in London. In 2011, Wim Heldens won the prestigious First Prize of the BP Portrait Award of the National Portrait Gallery in London which brought his work to the attention of a much wider public. Heldens is one of those artists who know from the beginning what they want to do. For him, painting is a psychological analysis, a narrative of human life experience. His realism, which is rooted in renaissance painting and the 17th century Dutch realist tradition in particular, gives form to the human condition in modern life while stressing the continuity of a valid and, in the 21st century, important pictural tradition

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9789077957363

9077957367

OCLC:

1329223004