Corneille (1922- ) - 1963 Turbulence of Summer (Indianapolis Museum of Art U.S.A.)
Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo (born 1922, Liege, Belgium), better known under his pseudonym Corneille, is a Dutch artist. Together with Karel Appel and Constant, Corneille was the co-founder of the Dutch Experimental Group (1948) that later gave way to the CoBrA group. In 1950 he settled in Paris. A year later he traveled to the Sahara, and the deep impression that the desert made on him found its expression in a series of paintings in which the earth was pictured as a sun-parched body of sand and stone, where only a few species of plant and animal survived.
Later he traveled to South America, the U.S. and Central Africa. The paintings that he produced were often bird's-eye views of flat landscapes and cities, but they came to be more and more movement, with stronger color contrasts. From the late 1970s onward Corneille's work became more representational, and large areas of color came to the fore. In a lyric style that he would never again abandon. He paints visions of tropical landscapes and gardens occupied by plants, animals and women. Corneille has become one of the most popular Dutch painters of his time, and his work enjoys an international reputation.
Corneille (1922- ) - 1963 Turbulence of Summer (Indianapolis Museum of Art U.S.A.)
Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo (born 1922, Liege, Belgium), better known under his pseudonym Corneille, is a Dutch artist. Together with Karel Appel and Constant, Corneille was the co-founder of the Dutch Experimental Group (1948) that later gave way to the CoBrA group. In 1950 he settled in Paris. A year later he traveled to the Sahara, and the deep impression that the desert made on him found its expression in a series of paintings in which the earth was pictured as a sun-parched body of sand and stone, where only a few species of plant and animal survived.
Later he traveled to South America, the U.S. and Central Africa. The paintings that he produced were often bird's-eye views of flat landscapes and cities, but they came to be more and more movement, with stronger color contrasts. From the late 1970s onward Corneille's work became more representational, and large areas of color came to the fore. In a lyric style that he would never again abandon. He paints visions of tropical landscapes and gardens occupied by plants, animals and women. Corneille has become one of the most popular Dutch painters of his time, and his work enjoys an international reputation.