Marcel Cockx (1930-2007) - Untitled

Marcel Cockx was a Belgian artist born in Herent in 1930 and died in Leuven in 2007. He was a painter. Education at the Academy in Leuven under J. Cobbaert and W. Paerels (1944-1955). He painted among other things landscapes, interiors, figures, flowers, but also found inspiration in rural life, the farm, the circus, clowns, the world of the child. Evolved from a dark expressionism (influenced by Permeke) to a clear and strong color expressionism. From the press: “M.C. can best be typified as a color expressionist. His color palette is honest and pure. The somewhat hazy atmosphere that cloaks his themes subtly symbolizes the dream world of the child” and “The melancholic closedness of his characters, their quiet resignation, their serene acceptance of fate, being the pictorial expression of the artist's moral underpinning. Also the calm execution of his landscapes with their ripple-free content, as well as the sobriety of the props material point in the same direction. His spontaneous joie de vivre, his exuberant happiness, his optimistic view of things find their translation through the exuberance of the applied color pattern” (S. Van Gelder, 1974). Prize of the city of Leuven in 1966, of the city of Aarschot and the municipality of Kortenberg in 1967. Works among others in the Museums in Leuven and Mechelen, in the collection of the Belgian State and the province of Brabant. He was a teacher at the Academy of Leuven (1956-1985). Mentioned in Bas I, II and Two centuries of signatures of Belgian artists (PIRON)
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