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About Joost de Jonge

Joost de Jonge is a widely exhibited Dutch artist with work in a wide range of international collections. He was educated at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and ’s-Hertogenbosch, and at the Universitat de Barcelona. He earned his BFA in painting with honors at the School of the Arts in Utrecht, followed by an artist residency at the Fundación Cultural Knecht-Drenth in Callosa d’en Sarrià, Spain.

In 2008 he began publishing catalogues of his work. In 2011 he initiated the Ekphrasis Project with his book The Ekphrasis Project: Oceanen van Kleur, inviting art critics, art historians, and poets to respond to his paintings with original writings. In 2014 the series became an online publication, and in 2015 he produced his first e-book with its own domain at paintedpoetry.org: Painted Poetry & Painterly Poetics—an ekphrastic notion. The collaborative project flourished with contributions from across Europe as well as from important American poets and writers.

His photos and poems have been featured in Dutch magazines, In 2014 the art critic and curator Peter Frank interviewed him for a YouTube video titled “Joost de Jonge: A Life of Art,” directed by Juri Koll and produced by the Venice Institute of Contemporary Art.

Son of Daedalus: poem with 2 paintings by Joost de Jonge

Joost de Jonge

Son of Daedalus 1. I await your stirring of emotion in the needle bushes beside the tree my path like a burning daemon touches no ground to honor your reality is like darkness the … [Read more...]

Painted Poetry and Painterly Poetics, an ekphrastic notion part 3: Palimpsest

Joost de Jonge and John Fuller

Joost de Jonge

Now Now is not past, but will be soon, With everything that is to come Under the stars and the white moon. An argued choice we make at noon By midnight sees us drained and dumb. Now is not … [Read more...]

A Third Scroll of Malachite: A Painting by Joost de Jonge and Poem by Norman Dubie

Joost de Jonge and Norman Dubie

A Third Scroll of Malachite —circa 800 AD The magus as a small boy in Egypt in his faded linens thought that the torchlight reflected in the harbor was a simple exchange of sleeping gulls over … [Read more...]

Icarus: Paintings by Joost de Jonge

Joost de Jonge

1Icarus (detail) - Joost de Jonge

daredevil it felt as if he was made out of gold his head rested upon his shoulders weightless, his father called for him but Icarus seemed hypnotised lost in a curve of endless blue the … [Read more...]

Paintings by Abstract Painter Joost de Jonge

Joost de Jonge

Artist's statement: I proclaim the freedom of abstract art to be self-referential. To be a joyous play of form and color, rhythm is at the heart of my compositions, the pulse which is hidden there, … [Read more...]

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Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

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