Ametrine (2024) Painting by Karin Vermeer
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Original Artwork (One Of A Kind)
Painting,
Oil
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Acrylic
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Digital Photography
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Manipulated Photography
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Digital Collage
on Linen Canvas
- Dimensions Height 47.2in, Width 47.2in
- Artwork's condition The artwork is in perfect condition
- Framing This artwork is not framed
- Categories Paintings under $5,000 Abstract Colorful
With this abstract, the process is precisely the same as with my new abstract works and portraits. I blend all kinds of pictures until I have digital artwork. After this process, I printed the design and started making many structures on top of the printed image with gel mediums. When I finish the structures, I paint intensely with oil paint until I am satisfied. The actual fixed-media works are all one-of-a-kind originals. I try to make the digital image tangible again.
My work is not so much about explanation and concept as it is about images. It is a game and all about the image. I start with no idea in general, but by looking at images that interest me and mixing them, a new image slowly evolves.
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Karin Vermeer is an independent artist who has lived and worked in Rotterdam since 2002. She was born in Tilburg in 1970, where she went to fashion school until she was accepted at the Willem the Kooning Academie in Rotterdam in 1990. She got her degree in illustration in 1994. After working as a freelance Illustrator and Decorator for a couple of years, it was time to start as an independent artist creating paintings and murals. Fashion and female portraits have always been her main interests, ever since she was a little girl, constantly looking into Fashion magazines. She was fascinated by the way these beautiful models were portrayed but also found it disturbing how unrealistic the way these pictures were manipulated was. That is what started her interest in mixing up photographs digitally and manually.
My works are created by digitally combining and editing photographs and paintings into new, original works. My favorite subject is the female face. I specialize in portraits created by overlaying and blending different photographs of different people to create unique, non-existing persons. Besides that, I also take pictures of models in my studio and create new images mixed with old walls, grunge posters, and other exciting elements. When the digital part is ready, I print the image and start painting it. I create thick structures and many layers of paint and gel over them. In this way, I try to make the digital image tangible again. My work is not about explanation and concept. It is a game to me about triggering the senses. I start with no idea in general, but by looking at pictures that interest me and mixing them, a new image slowly evolves.
- Nationality: NETHERLANDS
- Date of birth : 1970
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- Groups: Contemporary Dutch Artists