has a weekend house,
the mood is visceral,
vigorous, expressionistic,
and,
yes,
definitely
unstructured, with great
puddles of lush color
evoking hill and dale,
earth and sky. These
paintings, which virtually
hover on abstraction,
bring to mind the works of
artists like Frankenthaler
and
Olitski,
rather
than those of Signac
and Whistler, among
others, which inform
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Van Doren's architectural
paintings."One
goes through phases," he explains. "It's been a
gradual evolution."
But Van Doren will never yield his fascination with
traditional brick and stone. Diagonally across the street
from his studio a glitzy 90-story glass-clad condominium
tower is nearing completion. Asked if he would ever paint
a building like that, he replies he has "nothing against
modern buildings." But "stone is organic; it develops a
patina . . . and there's nothing more beautiful than an old
brick house." Buildings constructed of these materials
"speak to you", he continues. "They capture history . . .
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