Peter Jansen (born 1938) was educated as a painter at the Royal Academy of Art in
The Hague
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He taught art at the Academy of Art in
Rotterdam
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Utrecht School of the Arts
The HKU University of the Arts Utrecht ( nl, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, HKU) is a performing arts and visual arts educational institution in Utrecht, Netherlands.
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. He was a pioneer in the use of computers in art education in the Netherlands and in 1988 he became Managing Director of the Utrecht School of the Arts, Faculty of Art, Media & Technology. At the moment he travels non-stop over the world, creating his 'Panoramic Works'.
He uses a large variety of shot types and then manipulates them together. He then places them together in one image so that he can create sculptures of movement to represent what happens over a period of time.
His sculptures are mainly based on human movement.
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1938 births
Living people
Dutch artists
Artists from Amsterdam
Academic staff of the Utrecht School of the Arts
Academic staff of Willem de Kooning Academy