Philip Verhoeven

Between Heaven and Hell (The Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymus Bosch)

2024

"Une Symphonie Idiote" Acrylic and Marker on Canvas Year: 2023 Size: 27.55 x 23.62 x 1.18 inches Signed and titled by hang COA provided *On Stretcher Frame Ready to hang The painti...

Philip Verhoeven Il y a toujours quelque chose dans l'air, parfois (surrealism, birds, Belgian art) Acrylic and Marker on Canvas Year: 2024 Size: 15.75 x 15.75 inches Signed and titl...

"Une Forêt" Acrylic and Marker on Canvas Year: 2023 Size: 47.24 x 31.49 x 1.18 inches Signed and titled by hang COA provided *On Stretcher Frame Ready to hand Philip Verhoeven, tau...

"En Se Balançant le Long du Chemin" Acrylic and Marker on Canvas Year: 2024 Size: 15.74 x 15.74 x 0.78 inches Signed and titled by hang COA provided *On Stretcher Frame Ready to han...

Title: Garden of Earthly Delights Artist: TheDirtyFabulous Media: Oil on metal with polyurethane varnish Size: 60 x 40 inches / 153 x 102cm Year created: 2012-2014 Societies have long employed images that visualize their belief systems or attempt to encapsulate a narrative of our human destiny. This work follows in that tradition. The uppermost vignette is a silhouette from the nursery rhyme “Jack be nimble”, a children’s rhyme that refers to a 19th century game and a form of fortune telling. In Roman mythology Parcae (plural) were the personifications of fate. They are used in this painting as bookend figures on either side of a cosmic machine that answers questions of fate. Three vintage light bulbs labeled “yes”, “maybe” and “no” sit atop the clock – like machine and illuminate answers to humanity’s eternal questions. At the top of the composition are several re- configured tarot / divination cards belonging to an anonymous person circa 1930’s. The cards here are labeled; satisfaction dark woman, jealousy, dark man and betrayal. The grouping of these four cards refers to both positive and negative potentials concerning fate and offer clues to the viewer on a number of possible scenarios it could describe. The lower portion of the picture contains two silhouetted vignettes on either side of a central image of stars and planets against a dark void. The left image is of two children in a small wagon being pulled by a beetle. This is a reference to Egyptian mythology and the sun god Khepri. who personifies birth / rebirth. Khepri is portrayed as a beetle that pushes the sun across the sky. Here the young innocents...

Abstract Inspired By Natural Elements. My Abstract Paintings Are All About Creating Excitement For The Viewer Through Concentrated Exploration. Each Painting Is Inspired By Nature, ...

"You Can't Always Get What You Want" is a song by the Rolling Stones on their 1969 album Let It Bleed, which lyrics guided me when I was creating this painting. Allegory of expulsion...

La Beauté du Diable The Devil's Beauty Surrealism Conteporary Landscape Creature Gérard Willemenot was born on February 11, 1943. World War II and his father's deportation to Mautha...