Anton Rooskens, 1906-1976 Netherlands; Busy Colorful Abstract Oil on Board Painting. Original frame. Signed on verso. Important Abstract Artist of the COBRA MOvement.

size: 16.5 x 24, 19.25 x 27 outside frame. ASKart: Anton Rooskens (March 16, 1906 - Griendsveen February 28, 1976, Amsterdam) was one of the promoting members of the experimental group in the Netherlands and of the Cobra Group.From 1924 to 1934 he attended the Technische school, in the meantime he became interested in the visual arts and frequented Amsterdam to visit museums and exhibitions, at the Stedelijk Museum he discovered innovative artists such as the cubists Picasso and Braque, the Fauve Modigliani and the Belgian expressionists Frits van de Berghe and Constant Permeke.In 1946 he met Appel, Corneille and Brands at the Young Painters group exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Anton Rooskens' painting draws heavily on primitive art, especially African art, as well as the intuitive surrealism of Joan Miró and André Masson. “We were all aware that we were cut off from the past; we had also achieved limitless freedom.Only the primitives, children and psychopaths had our sympathy. "The experiment will become the fundamental means to arrive at a new form, the play of colors and shapes of his canvases undeniably made an important contribution to the CoBrA movement. he incorporated increasingly magical signs and symbols into his paintings, especially after he took a trip to Central Africa in 1954.In the mid-1960s, he returned to more colorful compositions more characteristic of the CoBrA movement. the play of colors and shapes of his canvases have undeniably made an important contribution to the CoBrA movement. He later incorporated increasingly magical signs and symbols into his paintings, especially after 1954 when he made a trip to Central Africa.