Kees Salentijn (1947) - El Cato / Poes

Kees Salentijn (1947)

El Cato
watercolor on paper
Size 40x30 cm, signed on the bottom right

Kees Salentijn pursues his studies at the Rijksacademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, department of free painting. O.B. Kat is there his most important teacher. Salentijn studies paintings in the Prado in Madrid during his student years.

In the eighties, Salentijn travels frequently to Spain. He feels connected during this period with artists of diverse movements, who somewhat advocate spontaneous unconscious creation and do not primarily seek aesthetic depiction. He combines the exuberant Cobra visual language with the influences of Spanish culture.