The inspiration he received from Vincent Van Gogh and Gauguin is apparent from the swirling colors and strong contrast between darkness and light. The moody atmosphere conveyed by his paintings is further enhanced by the 3-dimensional aspects which the thickness of the palette portrays.
The landscape painter Preben Rasmussen has just returned from one on his annual trips to Switzerland, Italy and France , where he has painted many beautiful paintings. A part of these he has brought with him home to Denmark and will now start arranging another exhibition, where also a selection of his very realistic Danish landscape paintings can be found.
Preben Rasmussen, who was born in Copenhagen I 1919 started to make drawings already when he was eleven years old, but the pencil was very fast replaced by the brush and oil colours inspired by his ideal the very well known artist Piet Hoejlesen.
His interest for the young painter can today be truly recognized in his colour composition and to a very high extent also in his landscape paintings. But it is his frequent stay in Paris who really had opened his eyes for the true art of painting. He was originally a naturalist using also Van Gogh and Gauguin as model and combining this with the inspiration from Piet Hoejlesen has achieved a somewhat more specific artistic effect.
At the time P.R. was more or less only known in Denmark, where his paintings until recently could be purchased at very modest prices. Today he is of some reason getting extremely popular in the USA and as a matter of fact I can sell all the P.R. paintings I can lay my hand on - in particular in the USA, where he many years after his death has become extremely popular.
Monday, October 12, 2009
18. SACRE COEUR AT MORNING
APPROXIMATE AGE: FROM ABT. 1945-50.
SIGNED: PR.
DESCRIPTION: THIS LOVELY PAINTING SHOWS A SQUARE IN MONTMARTRE, PARIS IN THE MORNING. A FEW PERSONS ARE CROSSING THE SQUARE. THERE ARE SOME VERY CHARATERISTIC HOUSES AND IN THE BACKGROUND THE DOMES OF SACRE COEUR CAN BE SEEN. THE WAY IN WHICH IT IS PAINTED IS VERY TYPICAL FOR THE WORKS OF PREBEN RASMUSSEN: VERY HEAVY LAYERS OF PAINT CREATING THE WELLKNOWN "RELIEF-EFFECT".