Kees Salentijn (1947) - Hommage aan Miro

Kees Salentijn (1947)

Homage to Miró
aquarel on paper
Dimensions 33x33 cm, signed lower right

Kees Salentijn pursued his education at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, in the Free Painting department. O.B. Kat was his most important mentor there. Salentijn studied paintings at the Prado in Madrid during his studies.

In the eighties, Salentijn traveled frequently to Spain. He felt connected during this period to artists from diverse movements who, more or less, advocated spontaneous unconscious creation and did not primarily seek aesthetic representation. He combines the cheerful Cobra visual language with the influences of Spanish culture.