In action
Denis de Gloire by Joan Altabe, National Examiner art critic.
Striving to be a latter-day Jackson Pollock, Denis de Gloire paints as if he were him. Such striving is an art history tradition. And before I go on to discuss his picture-making, a quick look at the history of copying is needed here because De Gloire’s efforts get short shrift from my fellow critics who, I suspect, forget this history.
Chronicles about artists copying from one another are as old as the Seven Hills of Rome when sculptors of the ancient empire borrowed freely from the Greeks. Michelangelo continued the practice when he carved a Cupid in the manner of a Roman relic and buried it in a garden for the dug-up look of antiquity. And Marcantonio Raimondi mimicked Albrecht Dürer even down to his initials
– “A. D.”
“Ik zie mezelf zeker nog evolueren in stijl. Kunst forceer je niet, ze biedt of dringt zichzelf op.”
“I can see myself developing with regard to style. You cannot force art, it offers itself or imposes itself upon you.” “Je vois certainement encore évoluer mon style. On ne force pas l’art, c’est lui qui offre ou qui s’impose.”