Jaqcobus Kloppers: Spoelgoud - SOLD
Kloppers, Jacobus (b 1959)
Spoelgoud
Oil on canvas
60,5 x 100 cm
Signed bottom left
Sold - 2016
William Feaver said this about the work of Frank Auerbach: Good paintings are the better for harbouring subliminal suggestion while being grounded in specifics.” Lucian Freud had this to say about the same artist: “Auerbach is the master of the persuasive – the degree of conviction is so absolute. Why are the great painters so much greater than the others? Because you believe in them more!”
This, for me, are the two necessary elements needed in a “masterpiece” – “subliminal suggestion” and “mastering the persuasive”. The rest is just hard work (for the artist and the viewer).
- JK