Ruben van Veen - The laughing lady

This oil painting on canvas by the artist Ruben van Veen is an image of the longing for a state of carefree existence. This female figure forever faces life with a smile.

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Ruben van Veen (born 1960) lives and works in the Netherlands and studied drawing and painting at the Volksuniversiteit in Gouda and at the Royal Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague. He has been exhibiting since 1992. His work is included in museum and private collections. In 2016 a catalog appeared, “Ruben van Veen / Drawings Paintings Cardboard,” a selection of his work from the period 1994–2016.

General information:
Ruben van Veen makes drawings, paintings and works on cardboard in a figurative, intuitive method in which the subconscious forms an important part of the creative process.
Without a predetermined plan, he starts with a piece. Then a human figure always appears. Often accompanied by an animal, a fruit, or an everyday object. This combination of images offers a glimpse into a bizarre world. The central theme in his work is, therefore, the human being and the complex social relations that people have with one another. It is about desires and fears and shows the fine line between seduction and rejection, harmony and conflict, tenderness and struggle.
Not without irony, he makes an attempt to visualize the riddle of life and is in search of a continually shifting ideal of beauty.