"NERO-Pen" (soft-lead) - The handcrafted box with golden-letterpress title on the box's lid contains an original, signed drawing (8.5 x 19 cm) after Jan van Goyen mounted on acidfree cardboard in an archival transparent sleeve, an artist's booklet about mechanical instruments made of brass, and a numbered and monographed drawing pen made of brass.
Marcel van Eeden (Netherlands, 1965) is a contemporary artist celebrated for his noir-inspired drawings. Using historical photos, texts, and documents predating his birth, he crafts narratives that blur fiction and reality. His intricate works, often executed in charcoal or pencil, explore memory, time, and storytelling.
Mixed MediaMixed media refers to artwork that incorporates more than one medium within a single piece. Unlike multimedia art, which combines distinct forms of visual art and often includes elements like sound, video, or digital media, mixed media focuses on combining traditional art materials, such as paint, ink, and collage. Mixed media art allows artists to achieve a wide range of effects and textures by layering and blending different materials.
"NERO-Pen" (soft-lead) - The handcrafted box with golden-letterpress title on the box's lid contains an original, signed drawing (8.5 x 19 cm) after Jan van Goyen mounted on acidfree cardboard in an archival transparent sleeve, an artist's booklet about mechanical instruments made of brass, and a numbered and monographed drawing pen made of brass.
Marcel van Eeden (Netherlands, 1965) is a contemporary artist celebrated for his noir-inspired drawings. Using historical photos, texts, and documents predating his birth, he crafts narratives that blur fiction and reality. His intricate works, often executed in charcoal or pencil, explore memory, time, and storytelling.
I started the whole series in 1993 with the idea of doing one drawing a day.
- Marcel Van Eeden
Marcel van Eeden is a Dutch draftsman and painter whose photo-realistic style is heavily influenced by film noir. His works are primarily monochromatic depictions of urban landscapes, nocturnal scenes, depictions of crimes and close ups of nefarious characters straight out of pulp fiction. Many of Marcel van Eeden's works are based on the visual style of the years preceding his birth year of 1965. He employs the templates of newspaper clippings, illustrations and magazines from the eras to express a bleak view of the world. Marcel van Eeden cites Edgar Degas as an influence in terms of his composition and pictorial style. The botanist Robert Walser is also a strong influence with Eeden using text from Walser's books over a series of drawings. Between the years 2001-2007 Eeden set himself the task of producing a drawing in ink and pencil on paper every day, which he simultaneously chronicled on his blog. He established a set of rules for the series, including basing each work on a found image. What resulted is a collection that in the graphic novel style which is a commentary on the way history is recorded and the fallibility of memory. (Artist website)
Photorealism is a genre of art or artistic movement that involves drawing, painting, and other graphic media in which the artist carefully studies a photograph and attempts to reproduce it as realistically as possible in another medium. While the term can broadly describe any artwork created in this manner, it specifically refers to a group of painters and paintings in the U.S. art movement that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s.