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Nederlandse Pointillisten - Lyklema Fine Art

Dutch Pointillism

Pointillism, 'invented' by George Seurat and Paul Signac, is the application of dots of paint in unmixed colors to the canvas. This technique really brings the light in the painting to life. The ef...

Flower still life

The Romans already painted still lifes on walls, as can be seen in Pompeii. Constantijn Huygens was the first to use the word "inanimatis" around 1630 when describing the work of Jacques de Gheyn a...

Landscape as a genre

Mountains, rivers, forests and the sea have been attractive to artists for centuries. In the early 15th century, landscape painting emerged as a separate genre in Europe. Certainly in the beginning...

Schulman en de Larense School - Lyklema Fine Art

Schulman & the 'Larense School'

If you now walk through Laren and the picturesque Blaricum, you will see that some houses have extra large windows on both the ground floor and the top floor. There is a good chance that a painting...

Guggenheim Venice

Last week we were in Venice to visit the Guggenheim museum in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni. What a beautiful museum. That alone is worth the trip to this romantic and surreal city. The abstract and...

The Haagse School

'The Hague School' is a name for a group of painters who worked in The Hague and surrounding areas between 1860 and 1890. The heyday of the Hague School lies roughly between 1870 and 1885. Well-kno...

Etching

In the 15th century it was discovered that an acid bites out metals and thus a representation can be made that can be used as a printing plate. A preferably copper plate is polished and provided wi...