From 1998 onwards Paul
Smulders investigated in his own way the boundaries between the
photographic and the painted image.
With the aid of photocopies he transformes photographs into
screen patterns. Such “transfers” and painted sections were
alternately put on top of another, resulting in layered images.
The introduction of new picture elements and graphic forms finds
its counterpart in a renewed passion for painting itself.
Although he also uses oil colours and spray paints, the painter
uses above all (industrial) acrylic paint.
Most of the time he will paint wet into wet without caring that
particular paints react aggressively to one another and the
mixture seems to curdle, but he knows how to use these
unpredictable reactions to his advantage.
UNTITLED (C2010.A06)
Acrylic/oil/transferprint on canvas
130 x 150 cm
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