Land art and site specific sculpture - land art uses
the environment and its scale as its material. Concrete art is expressed in
material itself with which the artist introduces her non-representational objective.
Public art can be viewed and accessed by observers.
Janus de Winter (1882-1951)
- pastel drawing explaining a dream.
Janus De Winter worked in the nineteenth-century
tradition of the 'translation' of music into abstract shapes
and colors and painted visions, auras 's and dreams. He was
a follower of Wassily Kandinsky and developed a variant of
lyrical expressionism . He was friends with the Utrecht
painter Erich Wichmann . In October 1915 Wichman introduced
him to painter and art critic Theo van Doesburg who for a
time was very enthousiastic about de Winter's work. De
Winter even influenced van Doesburg's work during this
period - such as a number of expressive and highly charged
pastels and self-portraits of this period including waanhoop (1915).
Portrait sketch by Theo van Doesburg of Janus de Winter.
In 1916 van Doesburg wrote about de Winter: "De Winter
tried to explain to us every color, the significance of each
form or color component, relating it to the psyche of the
individual or the specific situation, which inspired him. I
felt a particular emotion, but gave me no account of whether
the emotion was an aesthetic one. I was very impressed and
felt that everything, both his person and his work
introduced into me a certain demonic atmosphere, which
enveloped me like a red incense ."
A friend with the last name 'de Winter' gave me two
pastels by Janus de Winter. She had received them from an
art collector whom she had nursed in Laren Noord Holland.
Although the name de Winter is very common in Holland, he
gave her a number of drawings.