In the water scenes Thijs Sterk found his inspiration also in working after nature, but the imagination gradually loosened itself from the observed forms.
The above mentioned "Loosdrecht" can be seen as an example of his striving after autonomy, after disconnecting the image from the observation. In the background one can still recognize the tree covered banks of the lake but in the painting of the water, another world looms, abstract in all its facets.
What can be seen In the painting "Loosdrecht" as a painting inside a painting, a polarity between the perceivable and the abstract, the specific and the universal, has developed as a gradual process. |