9.02.2007

Aart Kemink - Canadian Artists

Aart Kemink (1914-2006) (variant name Arie Kemink) was a Dutch-Canadian painter, born May 30th, 1914 in the city Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In the late 1940s, he shared his studio with the Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher and, during early 1950s, became a member of the Federation of Professional Artists. Before immigrating to Canada in 1958, he then worked with compatriot artist Karel Appel, well known for his involvement in the Danish-Belgian-Dutch CORBA movement - see COBRA (avant-garde movement). In 1957, Kemink participated in the major exhibition of artists working for the theatre and circus at the Amsterdam’s Fodor Museum.
While Kemink held his own among Amsterdam and the Rotterdam’s artistic elite (a disparate group, which included artists such as Piet Mondrian, Anton Rooskens, Corneille, and even Eugène Brands). His reticence had to adopt a style or affiliate with a movement shielded his work from his influence of banal and ephemeral trends in Modern and Post-Modern Dutch painting. Upon his arrival in Canada, he settled in Manitoba, and then finally in Toronto, Ontario. Kemink’s works are distributed throughout Canada and the United States by Maurice Amar, curator of Toronto’s eminent Laurier Gallery.
Kemink’s work is largely abstract and tangentially influenced by the oeuvre of Marc Chagall and Willem de Kooning. Much of his work of the Forties and Fifties was affected by World War II and the deleterious effects of the Nazi presence in Holland. During the war, Kemink fought for the Dutch resistance





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