Lucebert - 'Blindman' - beautiful and original ink drawing from 1962 in good condition - Sold

Lucebert (real name: Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk, 1924–1994) was a Dutch poet and visual artist. He became best known as one of the central figures of the Cobra movement (Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam) around 1948–1951.

Lucebert as a draftsman

Although many people know him primarily as a poet, Lucebert considered himself primarily a visual artist. Drawing was not a sideshow for him, but a core element of his thinking and work.

Characteristics of his drawings:

Expressive and spontaneous: loose, energetic lines, often as if drawn in one breath.

Childlike and primitive (consciously): influenced by children's drawings, folk art and so-called 'primitive' art, typical of Cobra.

Figurative and imaginative: many monsters, hybrid creatures, deformed people and animals.

Combination of image and text: words, sentences or individual slogans often appear in his drawings.

Black and white or subdued use of colour: in drawings often in ink or pencil, sometimes with watercolour.

For Lucebert, drawing was a direct way to express the subconscious. He resisted academic rules and believed that art should be free, raw, and experimental.

Ideas behind the work:

Lucebert believed that art should question the existing order. His drawings often express:

resistance to authority and civil norms,

compassion for the vulnerable and the deviant,

interest in the irrational, the dream-like and the animalistic in man.