The modern portrait is what moves me most
Aphorism
I am a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter. In just over a decade I made about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings: landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits in bold colour and expressive brushwork.
After Charles Blanc's treatise I came to believe colour goes beyond description and carries feeling, and I built my art on it: garish reds and greens for The Night Café, yellow for emotional truth.