Roger Raveel

Raveel, Roger EN
firstname :
Roger
name :
Raveel
born on :
1921
city :
Machelen-aan-de-Leie
nationality :
Belgium
style :
new figuration
categories :
New figuration, pop-art
description :

Roger Raveel is a contemporary Belgian painter, who was trained in the academies of Ghent and Deinze. His painting is often associated with pop art because of the use of trivial everyday objects. After 1952 he begins to use large white spaces. A central theme in his work is the opposition of fiction and reality. In 1976 he created a large wall painting in the Brussels metro station Mérode.

The style of Raveel is often called the new figuration, a style in witch figuration and abstract figures join.

 
 

Work

a confrontation muurtje met wit in het vierkant