Ibn Rushd, Averroes

Ibn Rushd, Averroes
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2025
Ante Wessels


Hildegard von Bingen

Hildegard von Bingen
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2025
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Erik Satie

Erik Satie
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2025
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Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2024
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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2024
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Mozart

Mozart
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2024
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Homer

Homer
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2024
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"I am Athena, child of Zeus. I always stand near you and take care of you, in all your hardships."


Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2023
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Nina Simone

Nina Simone
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2023
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Isadora Duncan

Isadora Duncan
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2023
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Quintus Ennius

Quintus Ennius
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2023
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Rembrandt

Rembrandt
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2023
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Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2023
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Saint Francis of Assisi

San Francesco d'Assisi
Saint Francis of Assisi
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2022
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Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2022
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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2022
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Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh
to Fleur
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2022
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Theocritus

Theocritus
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2022
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Maria Callas

Maria Callas
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2022
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The portraits started with Maria Callas. Years ago, I accidentally saw a video of Callas. The emotion and other world quality of her singing captivated me. Her face seemed fluid; it expressed ten emotions in a second. I had never painted a portrait; I decided to paint her's.

I find other worldliness intriguing. Artists may express an aspect of it. I assume we have a soul, which can be in contact with yet something else. And then, being so open, how to live in this world?




Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2021
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John Coltrane

John Coltrane
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2021
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Goya

Francisco de Goya
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2021
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Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2021
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Om Kalsoum

Om Kalsoum
70 x 70 cm
oil/linen 2021
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Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2021
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Sappho

Sappho
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2020
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While preparing the portrait, I imagined it in greens. I didn't like the idea, thought it would turn out ugly. But I kept seeing greens. What to do?

I went to the park, meditated. It was as if Sappho appeared, she asked:
"Shall I help you?"
"Well, yes ..."
"Fresco."

That's the only word she said. I knew that I wouldn't have to paint a fresco (I can't), and the painting wouldn't have to look like one. It would be enough to keep the word in mind while painting. Then the greens were not needed.




Cleopatra

Cleopatra
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2020
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Ibn Rushd (Averroes)

Ibn Rushd (Averroes)
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2020
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Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri
50 x 60 cm
oil/linen 2020
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Theocritus

Theocritus
50 x 50 cm
oil/linen 2020
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Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong
50 x 50 cm
oil/linen 2020
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Bach

Bach
50 x 50 cm
oil/linen 2020
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Vergil

Vergil
50 x 50 cm
oil/linen 2020
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Mozart

Mozart
50 x 50 cm
oil/linen 2019
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Plato

Plato
50 x 50 cm
oil/linen 2019
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Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday
50 x 50 cm
oil/linen 2019
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Socrates

Socrates
50 x 50 cm
oil/linen 2019
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Shakespeare

William Shakespeare
50 x 50 cm
oil/linen 2019
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Homer
50 x 50 cm
oil/linen 2019
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Vincent van Gogh
50 x 50 cm
oil/linen 2018
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John Coltrane
50 x 50 cm
oil/linen 2018
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Henry Miller
50 x 50 cm
oil/linen 2018
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Maria Callas
50 x 50 cm
oil/linen 2018
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Jack Kerouac
50 x 50 cm
oil/linen 2018
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On this page new portraits. See also:

Tempest, a series of paintings on climate change, 2017-2018

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Paintings, objects, stories:

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