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"Mabel Violet" by JAS (Johannes Adrianus Smit)
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John Adrian Smith.
At the age of 17, Smit took his first steps as an artist by joining the Hillegom painters' club 'Line and Colour', of which the Leiden artist Henk Klinkhamer was also a member at the time. Together with Robert van Vliet, the two formed the art group Sybarit in 1986.
In Sweden, Smit worked in greenhouses for flower production. Inspired by the region in the south of Sweden, where the landscape turns yellow in spring, he produced his Svensklandskappor, landscape works that sold for a few hundred crowns. Through his travels to Germany, he became fascinated by German expressionism.
In 1983 Smit settled permanently in Belgium, where he continued to experiment. He hated tube paint, so he decided to make his own paint. This paint, which was soft and could therefore be easily applied with a knife, is easily recognizable in his works.
Around 1980, Smit designed and produced the so-called JAS chalk (also known as Clowny), which would also have been used by Willem de Kooning (in whose studio Smit worked for some time) and later in an adapted form by Karel Appel, according to Smit himself. When designing this chalk, Smit is said to have been inspired by the colors of the flames that arose in an airplane fire in the fall of 1979 at O'Hare International Airport, which he had witnessed. It was only with his own chalk that he managed to get the colors of the fire on the canvas as he remembered them.
Smit is not only known for his countless paintings and drawings, but also for his installations and Vidiwall compositions, which he realized together with audiovisual and graphic artist Lode Cafmeyer, among others. Some examples are Trembling Art Moment (1989) in Hillegom and the triumphal arch Grande Arche Mu (April 1994) in Lisse. In 1999 he sprinkled the Hofvijver in The Hague with a million yellow tulips. His last, unfinished, installation was The Blue Flower, scheduled for 2002.
ConditionExcellentNumber of items1First ownerYesArt sizeLargeHeight140 cmWidth140 cmDepth16 cm