ART: PAINTING CRITIQUES
GERTI
Bierenbroodspot
Gerti
Bierenbroodspot is a living legend in Holland and an artistic enigma to art
historians, archaeologists and art lovers. She has visited half of the world.
Especially the old world, ancient civilizations which are her source of
inspiration. She is fond of ancient cultures and civilizations, in particular
Greece, the Island of Crete, Pompeii, Al Batra, Jordan, the old Near East,
etc. The magnificence of old civilizations is brought to life on her
canvases. Where does she find her models? Life is her model. History of human
kind is her model because Bierenbroodspot constantly paints around
archaeological sites, ruins and old cities and quite often around excavated
old treasures, monuments, plates and statues of vanished civilizations.
Bierenbroodspot, one of Hollands best
known present day painters, whose highly personal mixture of classical and
modern art is praised by many European and American art lovers.
Her amazing versatility makes it hard to put any label on
Bierenbroodspot’s art. She gets the recipes of her paint out of Plinius, her
feeling of light, like most of Holland's painters, out of the overwhelming
Dutch skies. She is an almost Renaissancistic artist, who not only draws and
paints, but sculpts and designs. Like the god Shiva, she creates to destruct.
For beauty that flowers and ripens will inevitably grow old and wither in that
vast labyrinth of experiences which normal denizens of this world call life,
which physicists and gods call Time, and what Bierenbroodspot calls art.
