Peter Klashorst - Silkscreen, Yellow Princess - hand signed

Visual artist Peter Klashorst, born on February 11, 1957, in Santpoort, quickly gained fame after graduating from the Amsterdam Rietveld Academy in 1981. During this period, Klashorst not only focused on his painting; he also gave free rein to his artistic talents in his punk band Soviet Sex, his own pirate TV station, Bizar TV, and his discotheque, Bizar-discotheek. Peter Klashorst began his career during the neo-expressionist period in the Netherlands, the "new wild ones." In the mid-1980s, Klashorst's powerful expressive style stagnated, his canvases became more abstract, the colors disappeared, and his geometric work joined the "neo-geo" movement. In 1987, on Tenerife, he discussed the crisis of modernism with his colleagues Rob Scholte and Jiri Dokoupil: What can you still paint as a painter now that everything has already been painted? Klashorst and Dokoupil argued that painting needed to be reinvented and began copying reality, much like pre-modernist painters. This led to the birth of the group After Nature, which revived genres like nude, landscape, and still life. As co-founder of the After Nature artist collective, Klashorst gave new impetus to Dutch art history. The After Nature group (1987-1995), which included Klashorst, Jurriaan van Hall, Gijs and Aad Donker, Ernst Voss, and Bart Domburg, rebelled against prevailing abstract expressionism and made waves in the 1980s and 1990s with an innovative figurative painting style, rejecting the "isms" in art. Their relationship with their subjects and audiences was very direct and free of pretense. Their joint performances on the streets, in nature, and during art events were both well-known and notorious. That "snobbery" and "idealism" were also among the "isms" to be demolished became clear when Klashorst subsequently emerged as a portrait painter of "all of Amsterdam" and his participation in various television programs: "De Sprekende Ezel" (The Speaking Donkey), "Ikon" (Icon), and "Painting in Acrylic with Peter Klashorst," Teleac/NOT. Peter Klashorst (born 1957) graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 1981. The 1980s were a period in which a new movement emerged in Europe, that of the "wild painting" artists. Klashorst's painting style was immediately embraced by this movement. After several exuberant and energetic years, Klashorst's powerfully expressive style froze. His paintings became abstract and cold, and the colors disappeared. Klashorst's work appeared icy and indifferent.
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