Daan van Golden
To find peace, I decided to meticulously transfer the motif to linen. I didn't want to search while painting, but just wanted to make a creative decision in peace. That was a revelation. In a sense, it was a continuation of my preference for contrasts, black and white, horizontal-vertical, yin and yang, painted and unpainted canvas.
Daan van Golden via stedelijk.nl
In his early work, Daan van Golden (1936-2017, The Netherlands) created expressive and abstract canvases, painted in black and white. The turning point came when he took a trip to Japan in 1962. From that moment on, the motives of the everyday became the starting point for Van Golden's canvases and he meticulously started painting handkerchiefs, tea towels and wrapping paper. For this he used Japanese lacquer paint, which means that the paint test is almost no longer visible. A smooth surface is created. Van Golden made perfectly straight lines and diamond patterns by masking off parts of the canvas with tape.
