Jef Verheyen

The Belgian ZERO artist Jef Verheyen (1932-1984) became known as the painter of light streams and colour spectra. He experimented not only with light, but also with movement and the invisible as means to evoke natural mechanisms and to reveal universal interrelationships between human beings and the surrounding world. He used geometric principles – his passion for geometry was born out of his interest in mathematics and (Greek) philosophy – as the basis for harmony. Verheyen never gave up on traditional media and materials such as the canvas, paint, and brushes to search for the essence of our nature.

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(c)Jef Verheyen, photo: Jan Liégeois, Axel Vervoordt - Jef Verheyen Archive

• 0302 • The emotional effect of flaming light , 1975

Private

Painting , 160 x 160 cm

Matt lacquer on canvas

Peintre flamant
Source: Freddy De Vree, Jef Verheyen - Lux est Lex, exh. cat., Axel Vervoordt Kanaal (01.03.2004-17.04.2004), Wijnegem:Axel Vervoordt: p. 33-34.

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Aangehaald door Dr. H.T. [Herman Theo] Piron in zijn psychoanalytische interpretatie van Hiëronymus Bosch zegt Kenneth Clark over het verschijnen van het vuur: ‘The emotional effect of Flaming light, or actual Flames, seems to have been discovered in 1490’. Wat in de 16° eeuw nog ontdekt werd en in gebruik kwam was de betekenis Flaming afgeleid van het Latijnse Flamma en het nog vroegere Flagsma. De juiste betekenis van het woord Vlaming – ook in een Franstalig ethymologisch woordenboek – is: oiseau couleur de flamme.

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