Profile Information
- College / University
- art academy Minerva Groningen
- Program
- drawing, painting
- Graduation
- 30 May 1696
- Member type
- Artist
- If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
- Drawing, Painting
- About my artwork
- At first sight Annemarie Busschers makes Hyperrealistic portraits in a rawrealistic manner.
But hyperrealism is not important to her, it’s just a graphic, complex and at the same time transparent approach that defines her work immediately as a modern art. By means of a mixed technique she intensively explores the skin of her models and investigates the limits of experimentation with the material and ways of expression. Each portrait requieres an unique process.
So she uses transparent pieces of paper streaked with veins on the back, and in using pastel the surface gains a skin colour. The frontside is elaborated with a black pencil or with acrylic paint. After that the paper is glued to the linen. Then it’s treated further on with semitransparent sheets of oilpaint or acrylic or textile. Sometimes the artist applies the paint directly to the linen. It’s this complex way of working that makes her work often a mixture of a drawing and a painting. Actually in this layered structure the skin appears also multi-layered.
The aspect which most fascinates her is the skin; the way she uses the skin on the paper is not as important as that of her models. She analyses her digital portraits for irregularities, lines, wrinkles and veins. These aspects are what she wishes tot emphasize in the finally created portrait. To her aging is a fascinating process. Annemarie Busschers doesn’t care much about embellishment and idealization, for ages an important purpose of portraitpainting. On the contrary, it’s her opinion that aging just reveals beauty. ‘In comparison with other people my own aging is to me a very intense process and I’m surprised about the way I’m changing. That’s what I like tot record’, she said about that.
Indeed, as a consequence we frequently see originate self-portraits among her other portraits
- Artists I like
- Jenny Saville, Chuck Close, Lucian Freud, Slawomir Elsner,Eric Fischl, Michael Raedecker, Pat Andrea, neo rauch, Thai-Shan Schierenberg, Marlene Dumas,
- What exhibitions are good at the moment?
- Go China! Assen-Groningen 2008 http://www.gochinaassengroningen.nl/
- The centre of the artworld is
- nowhere and everywhere
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Actually I've seen your actual works in BP Portrait Award frequently and they are always stunning. Just adorable and admirable!
Hideyuki
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Your work is simply amazing!!.. I'm speechless!..
Kisses
Duma
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Impressive work! Can't wait to see some more here!
best wishes
Janee
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