Veiled Like a Young Bride by Pierre Alechinsky was created in 1975. The painting is in Museum of Modern Art New York. The size of the work is 60 x 76,2 cm and is made as an lithograph and etching on paper.

The Artist: Pierre Alechinsky was born in Schaerbeek (1927). Like Karl Appel and Corneille, Alechinsky was active in a group of Danish, Belgian and Dutch artists who called themselves Cobra (1948-195o). Alechinsky’s background was in book illustration and typography, which he studied in 1944 at the Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Architecture et des Arts Decoratifs in Brussels.

This training in the principles of design remained a key factor in his later work. After a phase of emotionally charged, gestural painting in the mode of European Art Informel, a trip to Japan in 1955 brought a changeover. Alechinsky’s style grew more tranquil, contemplative, and ornamental, probably under the influence of Japanese calligraphic ink-painting, about which he even made a film in Tokyo and Kyoto.

This may also have been the source of his increasing preference for the color black, and perhaps even of the idea of including written texts in his prints and drawings of the period, which were eloquent in every sense of the word. A turn from impasto oils to smoothly applied acrylic paint, in 1965, contributed to a stylistic change in Alechinsky’s work. Read more

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