About This Work

My Personal Cubist Style This graphite pencil drawing ‘Neo Deco – 29-12-25’ takes me back to the core of my personal cubist style. An Angular bodyscape sparked my imagination. There was this referential picture taken by Laure Albin-Guillot lingering in my mind. However, caught up in realism for some time now, I almost forgot about this one. On the brink of a new year I felt like closing the old year with another Neo Deco drawing. After all, this style and its precedessor ‘Roundism’ has brought me success and wordwilde recognition. This year I sold many a drawing and painting to art collectors in America, Australia and Europe. All being part of this particular art deco-like cubist signature. Makes me wonder which whims wills carry me further in 2026. On my easel is my surrealist masterpiece ‘In Hoc Signo’ still waiting to be masterpieced. On the other hand cubism keeps pulling me in. Sketching Frenzy Variety is the spice of life and this time I felt relieved to do a sort of a quick sketch. Nothing fancy, just to see whether I could employ this new Clairfontaine Lavis paper would serve my purpose. Which was to work fast and support me in my sketching frenzy by allowing using hefty blocks of tonal violence. In the drawing at hand I felt compelled to capture the head in big dark pencil strokes only. Consequently, it took me only 5 minutes to distill it to its essentials. The invention of the bodyscape took me more time. Initially I wanted something angular only but soon I changed my mind. The second-to-last-drawing Neo Deco – 14-12-25 shows something similar: round curves and straigh linear structures combined. That one tends more towars the true art deco style. This one looks more like my older works from a couple of years back. Graphite pencil (Faber Castell, Pitt Graphite Matt, 14B) drawing Clairfontaine Lavis paper (21 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm) Artist: Corné Akkers