Who’s next?… Dick Ket

by Valentina Biondini, art and literature amateur

Self-portraits

Who’s Next? Dick Ket, a Dutch painter who is still surrounded by an aura of fascination both for his art and for his life, filled with irony and tragedy. His art and life are both like a beautiful feather fallen to the ground and suddenly blown away by the force of the wind. Initially influenced by Post-Impressionism, he later gravitated towards the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement and, finally, to the so-called Magischer Realismus (Magic Realism). Read more

Who’s next?… Arturo Nathan

by Valentina Biondini, art and literature amateur

Solitudine, 1930

If you ask Who’s Next? I answer that my name is Arturo Nathan and I was an Italian painter of Jewish origin. For the themes I deal with in my painting I have been defined as “the solitary contemplator”, precisely because of the poignant way in which I was able to transpose the contemplation of the end of things onto the canvas. Here’s my story.. Read more