Engelse editie - Herwig Todts; Claire Van Damme; Valerie Verhack
Living one's art
KORTE INHOUD
Jan Cox (1919-1980) was born in The Hague and spent his youth in Amsterdam. Shortly before World War II, he moved to Antwerp with his parents and his brother, the composer Harry Cox, and studied History of Art at the State University of Ghent. After the war he settled down in Brussels to become a co-founder of the Jeune Peinture Belge (Young Belgian Painting). He had contacts with the members of Cobra and became close friends with Hugo Claus and Pierre Alechinsky. In 1956 Jan Cox left for the USA where he was appointed Head of the Painting Department at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. In 1974 he returned to Belgium and found a new home in the circle of the Gallery De Zwarte Panter (The Black Panther) in Antwerp.
Jan Cox thought of his artistic calling as an artistic and a humanist project. His painting has a strong surreal and magical bias but he also created imposing expressionist images. He liked classical themes: the myth of Orpheus, Homer’s Iliad, Judith and Holofernes, the Calvary. Jan Co...
Jan Cox thought of his artistic calling as an artistic and a humanist project. His painting has a strong surreal and magical bias but he also created imposing expressionist images. He liked classical themes: the myth of Orpheus, Homer’s Iliad, Judith and Holofernes, the Calvary. Jan Co...
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2008Uitgever: Stichting Kunstboek336 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 9058562816ISBN-13: 9789058562814Koop dit boek tweedehands
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The Belgian painter Jan Cox (1919-1980) played an important role in the postwar history of art. He was one of teh founders of the group of artists called La Jeune Peinture Belge and he was also closely related to the Cobra movement. In 1956, Cox moved to Boston (USA) where he lived and worked until 1974. Back in Belgium, he was introduced into the art society of 'The Black Panther' Gallery in Antwerp.Jan Cox's first works are mainly abstract, but gradually they got a magical and surrealistic character. The ...
