- Type of work: Painting on paper
- Technique: Watercolor on paper
- Approximate dimensions: Standard paper size: 75 x 99 cm (75 x 99 cm)
- Subject: Landscape
- Title: Icod de los Vinos
- Author: Lambert van Bommel (*1945)
- Chronology or Year: 2000
- Historical-artistic analysis:
Style: Landscape painting copied from nature in a realistic style.
DescriptionIt is an urban landscape, where a group of houses with tile roofs occupies the central part of the composition, flanked by a tree and a palm tree on the left side, the whole scene being crossed by the power lines attached to the light poles, a resource used as a dynamic element of it. With a compositional technique very close to photography, he focuses on the image to be emphasized, in this case the houses, the laying out and the vegetation, leaving the rest simply posed, together with large empty spaces of white paper as an important part of the composition. With a sober chromatic range, where the white or pale blue tones of the houses contrast with the blacks and dark greens of the cables and vegetation, the image represented, faithful to reality, is nevertheless far from any identification with a specific place, without the typicality or the folkloric exaltation characteristic of regionalism.
Date received: It was donated by the artist on the occasion of his exhibition at the Casino de Tenerife, from November 13 to 25, 2000.
About the authorLambert van Bommel (Monster, Holland, 1945), studied decoration at the Ambachtsschool in his hometown, and later apprenticed in porcelain painting in Delft. From 1962 to 1967 he received academic training at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague, especially under the teachings of Paul Kromjong. After finishing his studies and after a period as a poster painter, in 1969 he participates in the Jacob-Maris-Prijs, receiving the first award. Interested in realist painting, he moved to Bavaria in 1971, where he settled in Augsburg, dedicating himself both to artistic creation, with landscape painting from life in the watercolor technique, and to teaching. Precisely as a professor of painting he visited Tenerife for the first time in 1995, being captivated by the island, both for its climate and for the light that enlivens the color. After the success of his first exhibition in Santa Cruz in 2000, he decided to settle in Tenerife in 2001, specifically in Los Silos, maintaining links with Augsburg, where he continues to exhibit periodically. His painting is based on the observation of nature, in this sense it is plainarist, but it also reflects the soul of things. With a reduced palette with an accentuation of black, he makes a realistic painting faithful to the original reference, from a very personal point of view. Since 2001 he has exhibited almost every year in the Exconvento de San Sebastián de Los Silos, in the Castillo de San Felipe in Puerto de la Cruz or in La Casa del Vino del Sauzal.
Bibliography:
Archive of Tenerife. Revista Casino de Temerife, no 8. Santa Cruz de Tenerife, April 2001. AAVV: Perspectives II. Lambert van Bommel and his art of fixing what happens. Bio Energetik Verlag, Kinsau, 2008.
