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'Paintings, stripped of personal emotions, radiating a cool detachment, are the result of clinically precise isolation of fragments from the real world.

 

With the vanishing point way beyond the actual surface of the painting, the laws and rules of hyperrealism are almost casually defied. This particularly affects the series with glass jars with a touch of surrealism.'

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-  Exhibition 'Alledaags ritme'  ('The daily Rhythm')

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Walter Braak (Purmerend 1966), fine artist in the realist tradition, paints mostly still lifes in his studio in Noordwijk (Groningen, The Netherlands), using oils on wood panel. Larger works may be painted on canvas. Walters themes are objects from day to day life. By isolating them from their surroundings he enhances their status. They become the central characters on their own stage. The work has been typed as 'royal portraits of the ordinary'.