The purpose of my painting is my communication (physical- due to a brain tumor) as well as mental. That is why it is important that I make art. FOR MYSELF. But to make me understood. When people start to think about it. All the better.
My name is Hans De Smet, 45 years old. I am living in Ninove. And I am a painter. My style can be best described as Poetic realism, (since I usually use poetic images, which either are on me or on other people. )
In my ‘ former ‘ period, I mainly ‘ painted Lucifers or Stekskes (matches, desallumettes, Streichhölzer oder Spiele). Going from the Dali-Stek, to Easter Island-Stek on Stekmannuelle, cutting to Toulouse-Laustecq (aristide Bruant dans son cabinet) and Stekuernica, etc. …. (60). There are still some left , but I don’t paint them anymore. But I’m still maintaining the idea right/Copyright.
De experience I gained enabled me to paint what I had as an idea from the beginning. This is to paint my poems. (It is about 10 years that I’ve made 250 REAL poems – not pschycological writings- and I all ‘interpreted’ them all. This means I drawed them already in ‘a new point of view’. So, I have 750-800 paintings, YET to make. BUT, even though I already made some, I still can’t make them on a regular basis, because I have so many thoughts, that make me want to paint something else. (Like F;I; Now I’m makuing the signs of the Zodiac. But, not the signs per se…The STARCONSTELLATIONS. I already made de 7 deadly sins.
I’m making the 7 virtues, then come the 7 deadly sins with MY interpretation and after that. the DEATH of the deadly sins.De experience I gained enabled me to paint what I had as an idea from the beginning. This is to paint my poems. (It is about 10 years that I’ve made 250 REAL poems – not pschycological writings- and I all ‘interpreted’ them all. This means I drawed them already in ‘a new point of view’. So, I have 750-800 paintings, YET to make. BUT, even though I already made some, I still can’t make them on a regular basis, because I have so many thoughts, that make me want to paint something else.(Like F;I; Now I’m makuing the signs of the Zodiac. But, not the signs per se…The STARCONSTELLATIONS. I already made de 7 deadly sins. I’m making the 7 virtues, then come the 7 deadly sins with MY interpretation and after that. the DEATH of the deadly sins. Only then come my poem interpretations. I have so many. So, still a lot of work.I hate how art is not art anymore, nowadays. By that I mean: the emptyyourgaragemakeupalifestoryandcallitart, art. No. It became like the society. Quickly Consumable. That art explaines WHAT the IDEA is, oke. But not, how you have to feel; how you expect to have to look at it. How to lead people into ‘nothing’. No. Art has only 2 goals:
- The freedom you have as an artist to be able to express oneself through images.And
- Share that freedom Let art be art. Let people make their own ideas AGAIN. No NEED to a have a made-up story.