While he showed a key interest in oil paints and canvases starting from a young age, Constant Nieuwenhuys had, at a certain period, resorted to painting upon bed sheets and tablecloths while in hiding from the Nazis. With no better word to describe his style aside from the obvious abstract, Constant's art was experimental.
« Space as a psychic dimension (abstract space) cannot be separated from the space of action (concrete space). Their divorce is only justified in a utilitarian society with arrested social relations, where concrete space necessarily has an anti-social character. »
Constant Nieuwenhuys
He believed art to be fleeting and sought it to be ever-changing. After having already established a name for himself by the age of 32, Constant Nieuwenhuys received
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While he showed a key interest in oil paints and canvases starting from a young age, Constant Nieuwenhuys had, at a certain period, resorted to painting upon bed sheets and tablecloths while in hiding from the Nazis. With no better word to describe his style aside from the obvious abstract, Constant's art was experimental.
« Space as a psychic dimension (abstract space) cannot be separated from the space of action (concrete space). Their divorce is only justified in a utilitarian society with arrested social relations, where concrete space necessarily has an anti-social character. »
Constant Nieuwenhuys
He believed art to be fleeting and sought it to be ever-changing. After having already established a name for himself by the age of 32, Constant Nieuwenhuys received a scholarship to study for three months in London, complimenting his former education at the State Academy of Fine Arts in his home country. With the help of
Asger Jorn, Constant Nieuwenhuys founded the
CoBrA art movement, consisting of an experimental art-form known as
avant-garde.
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