Corneille (Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo) - Equipe des pays bas - football

The work has a marked expressionist vocation, which emphasizes the expression of emotions. Expressionist art seeks to proclaim its moods to the world and flaunt them with passion. Formally, this translates into a summary rendering of the figures, through a very nervous and animated line, as well as the use of a violent color palette. These characteristics are found in the historical avant-garde movements of expressionism: Fauvism and the Die Brücke movement in Germany. The artist Corneille, one of the leading exponents of the CO.BR.A. group, reworks his subjects according to a remarkable expressionist synthesis consistent with the aesthetic principles of that artistic movement. The work in question was created for the European Football Championships held in 2000 in Belgium and the Netherlands.

This silkscreen is exemplary of the Belgian artist Corneille's style, even in his treatment of a popular subject like football. The subjects undergo a remarkable process of abstraction that reduces their forms and transforms them into dynamic silhouettes. Even the distribution of color, made up of horizontal layers, serves to translate, through gesture, the artist's personal aesthetic conception. The figures, as is typical of the poetics adopted by the CO.BR.A. Group, take on a pared-down appearance and an archaic expressive force. Even the choice of colors, with their strong and aggressive hues, is consistent with the strongly expressionist and abstract language of Corneille's painting. However, in this work, inspired by the theme of football, Corneille tones down the drama of his expressionism to adopt a more pop-oriented language.

Guillaume Cornelis Van Beverloo, known as Corneille, was a Belgian artist born in Liège in 1922 and died in Auvers-sur-Oise in 2010. He co-founded the experimental Reflex movement with Karel Appel, Eugene Brands, and Anton Rosskens. Cornelis studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam between 1940 and 1943, but was largely self-taught. His first solo exhibition was held in Groningen in 1946. With a group of like-minded artists, Corneille founded the Dutch Experimental Group in 1948, which led to the formation of the CO.BR.A. movement. Corneille participated in group exhibitions of the Co.BR.A. movement. in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1949 and in Liège in 1951. In 1949 he undertook his first trip to North Africa where he discovered the Arab and Berber world and from 1950 onwards he settled in Paris.

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