Joop Koning's Page

Name

Joop Koning

Artistic Medium

I`m a free painter, illustrator and concept artist with links to land-art and architecture.

Birthplace

Haarlem, province of North-Holland, Netherlands

Influences

Hercules Seeger (17th century). the great Dutch master like Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Rubens, Pieter de Hoogh, of course Breugel father and son, Jeroen Bosch.
Others: the greatest of all, Franciso y Luciente de Goya (les Caprises), Pieranesi, Rops, Ensor, The dutch master (19th & 20 thCencury)Maris, Israels, Sluyter, but the most by Breitner.
Modern artisst like Appel, Constant, Freimut, Aleshisky, Allis, Bacon.

How it all began...

I was born with a sketchbook and pencil, my mother used to say.
From the first moment of consciousness of the great, huge world, I wanted to become a painter.
My mother used to take me with her to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, there I was totally estonished by the great portraits of noblemen and merchants made by the master of the 17th century.
That`s were it started, I`m a artist, were my thoughts.

In the works...

I`m a concept painter and I`m a imagehunter.
In painting I got three serie who will contiue during my life.
1; The Dutch Landscape, every year I`m painting a number of canvasses about this subject.
2: the big red beast, political paintings, every year a view.
3: Unreal reality, about our strange life, lived in constant electronical lies, dreams and disinformation.
Men don`t talk about there life, but about what they have seing on the "Mourn-Tube".

Down the road...

I(`m 60 years now and probebly will live for a few years, let`s say 10 or 15 years, I`ve got a heartcondition and I`m a copdpatient, so count your blessings.
Easy living is the moto and I do so.
But my artworks are not suffering by this, I`m slowing down a bit, but still going strong with my creative works.

About me in general...

I`ve exposed my work in several galleries, city-exporooms.
Artworks soled all over the world.
In a moderat manner, me and my wife can live from the money coming in.
I`m teaching art to the mental disorderd people, my funny friend and I love to do so.

if you could collaborate with/meet any artist, past or present, who would it be?

I`would like to have a sculpuresession with Praxitheles, the makers of the Venus of Willendorf and lessons in native arts, like the abbo`s in Australia.

Check out my website

http://www.joopkoning.nl