Leentje Linders - Ets en Blinddruk, Ad van Tage- Ingelijst - Sold

The artist Leentje Linders (1942) completed her education in 1972 at the Free Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague. She became skilled in painting, sculpting, model drawing, dancing and etching. Since her graduation, Linders has focused on specializing and perfecting the old 15th-century etching technique. With this she wants to draw a line between present and past. In her performances Linders has planes fly above old nautical charts or on a parchment surface with dark texts in which famous names such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michiel de Ruyter can be discovered. Leentje Linders reinforces these representations by using a number of basic colours, such as azure sky blue, turquoise blue, the dark blue of the southern water, sepia, yellow ocher, brown - all colors of sky, sea and earth. To remind us that man is an earthling, that wood was the basic material of old ships, that rust affects iron. But she never applies the colors in a systematic way. A 17th century pinas can be as steel blue as the hull of a frigate. A minehunter has the reddish brown color of old pine wood. An F-16 cockpit can take on the ocher colors of Da Vinci's flying machines.