Many styles seen in display of paintings
An exhibition of paintings) by Frits Krijgsman is on) display in the Canterbury So-) ciety of Arts Gallery. Frits Krijgsman was born in Leiden, studied interior design and colour composition in Utrecht and before coming to New Zealand travelled
and worked in France and Sweden.
| In his paintings he favours no particular style, moving from a symbolic representation of smoking chimneys in Europe to abstract arrangements of decorative colour, textured grounds and caricatured figures. An example of the textured grounds he uses is “65 plus” in which the full figure of an elderly woman is modelled in relief and coloured with a thin red glaze. The paint in "Reflection,” "Begijine Gate Amsterdam,” “Corpus Christ” and “Frits” seems to have been scraped on by palette knife or cardboard edge to give a broken translucent effect.
The controlled mingling and running of wet paint is used in “Embryo” and “Inferno.”
It appears that Frits Krijgsman is searching for the technical means to enable him to give his work the inspirational and emotive quality he desires but the observer may well feel confused by the variety of approach adopted. The exhibition will remain [open until June 20.—G.T.M.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32629, 10 June 1971, Page 5
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