Floris Jespers - Artist Info

About Floris Jespers

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Jesper Floris
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    Floris Jespers (1889-1965) challenges and continually adapts the theme, technique and even how to paint. His style exercises drugs often reflect a constant youthful creativity. These characteristics place it among the "iconoclastic" of Flemish art, but as wrote Dadaist painter Antwerp Paul Joostens he remained in "purgatory with fire in the distance ..."

    It is in contact with Joostens, but especially the decisive personality of the poet Paul Van Ostaijen (1896-1928) that will evolve in the footsteps of futurism, cubism, abstraction and expressionism. Through links with the Berlin avant-garde Van Ostaijen, Jespers contacts Heinrich Campendonck which will have a decisive influence in his use...

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