Pat Andrea (born 1942) is a Dutch contemporary painter and sculptor. He is one of the representatives of the New Subjectivity.

Biography

Pat Andrea was born in 1942 in

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, Netherlands. He is the son of the illustrator Metty Naezer and the painter

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. From 1960 to 1965, Pat Andrea studied at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, where he was a student of the painter

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. Along with Walter Nobbe and Peter Blokhuis, he founded the ABN Group (from their initials: A ndrea, B lokhuis, N obbe ). They came to be associated with the Nieuwe Haagse School. In 1977,

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invited him to participate in the exhibition ''La nouvelle subjectivité'' in the Paris Fall Festival, along with Jim Dine,

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, Raymond Mason, and Olivier O. Olivier. He traveled to Latin America and settled in

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, where he remained for several years. From 1989 he started to make sculptures in bronze. Pat Andrea teaches at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Locating himself between

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and

Balthus Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (February 29, 1908 – February 18, 2001), known as Balthus, was a Polish-French modern artist. He is known for his erotically charged images of pubescent girls, but also for the refined, dreamlike quality of his image ...

("entre Bacon et Balthus"), Pat Andrea has developed a figurative painting style depicting an ambiguous and murky universe.

Distinctions

In 1964 Andrea won the Jacob Maris Prize (''Jacob Marisprijs'') for drawing and in 1971 received the Royal Prize for Painting (''Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst''). In 2002 he was elected a corresponding member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts of the

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Exhibitions

From June to September 2007 he presented 48 paintings illustrating the works of

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at the

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. This was the result of an editorial collaboration with Diane de Selliers. The same collection could be seen in the Santa Monica Art Centre,

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, in 2010. His paintings can be seen in the Victor Saavedra Gallery, Barcelona. His work is represented by the Bertrand Delacroix Gallery in the United States.

Other work

Pat Andrea designed the cover for the Dutch train schedule for the year 1979/1980, depicting

Rembrandt Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (, ; 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker and draughtsman. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally consid ...

with a startled expression, painting a train.Rembrandt van Rijn
''Langs de Rails'' by Nico Spilt. Retrieved April 21, 2016

References

External links

Pat Andrea
at Galeries.NL, with examples of his work {{DEFAULTSORT:Andrea, Pat 1942 births Living people Artists from The Hague Dutch painters Dutch male painters Dutch sculptors Dutch male sculptors Royal Academy of Art, The Hague alumni Members of the Académie des beaux-arts Academic staff of the École des Beaux-Arts