The making of: ….THE SWAMP………… ………………..the Movie / click to play, flashmovie 3. mB!! ( poor people's version under construction ) This movie/flash/animation, started as a slow song, humming along, but during the proces, I started to “copy” a painting by Anton Mauve* In 1885, three years before his death in 1888, he settled in Laren (het Gooi), where he made the Swamp (het Moeras)*, canvas, 60 x 90 cm. The more I worked trying to catch this unigue “sompy” admosphere of the wet-dutch- moors with a bleeched pale sun that comes out between rainclouds………….(: ……………………………………………………………………………."birds praying in the sky……………" The silvery white in the clouds being reflected in the green/grey swamp……… The Swamp, ………… …………….…even before I knew the title of this painting I saw mosquitos dancing above a dark pool of water, that changes in a desolate but peaceful moor…..( the flock of birds he painted black in front the greyblue sky )…………… In the movie you see the Swamp changing in to a sweet-Indian red….and what I like about: it resambles the frame of mind of a kind of melancholy Anton Mauve so splendidly captured in his painting. *Anton Mauve has been called the “God-father” of a group of artist who formed the so called “Haagse School”. All his paintings are recognized for there unigue admosfore, not impressionistic, but more worked over, with a great feeling of intimacy in his use of colour. Het Moeras This painting takes an unigue position in Mauves oeuvre. As it is known the painter suffered from depressions, this painting has been interpreted as a “mirror of his soul” Therefore it has been associated with van Gogh's “Korenveld met Kraaien”…..the last painting Vincent made before he took his own live. Mauves “Het Moeras” was created five years before van Gogh's painting and shows his great love for nature and the typical dutch weather conditions. Interrested in More about this subject? Oranjefeest / the movie (work in progress) There is an other atemt to make a “moving-painting”. Here I tried to capture the admoshere of a party. In the nightly strreets of old Amsterdam. The painting by Jacobus van Looy : "Oranjefeest" has been the starting point, with the words he wrote about it, in my mind: ………..Hij was in de hoofdstad en de hoofdstad vierde feest….(…) Er waren veel vrouwen bij, ze hiha-den met de mannen mee. Een ogenblijk zag hij ze in de dronken en bevlamde gezichten, ze waren vertrokken en misvormd door de opwinding (…) Ja, alle kelen zongen,alles joelde er om het laagste en hoogste lied. In het bleeke van den ochtendlijk-wordenden hemel juichschaterde en schreeuwde het oranje, wild lachte en bleerde het rood, piepte en gilde het wit en bomde het donkere blauw samen met het geduister van het dennengroen en het gepurper der schaduwen…..(…)…….t’ Was een troep dronken wijven, met oranje onderbroeken aan, armeluis onderbroeken, oranje geverfd in een pot kokende sop van campienje hout………..
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