EXHIBITION ’WAS SIGNED’ with pen drawings
In her drawings Marja de Jong is showing the different ways she is looking after the subject. As a painter she can model the black and white of the pen and ink in different nuances of gray like in one of the drawings with the cats.
In the series showed in this exhibition she is showing the pure line: thick and thin light and dark; open and closed; straight and expressive.
The series of the ‘tulips’ 7 drawings after a still life with a huge amount of tulips is showing the various ways this subject can be seen.
There is a more ‘natural’ vision, but it ends in only some lines as a result of the observation of the growing and dead of these flowers in the vase.
The white of the paper is important as the line on it. This is the pure expression of the black and white drawing.
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Marja de Jong is also invited to have an exhibition in The Museum of the History of Professional Education in St. Petersburg. It will take place from January 18 until February 19 2008. In this exhibition she will show illustrations in pen and ink and wax crayon.
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