Sometime ago, I saw the art of Victor Muller and noted that he might be the subject of a future art blog. Well, the time had come and I opened a search. I was curious as to why his art didn't look anything like what I had expected. Turns out that the name is a bit common.
There's a businessman as well as an artist by that name. Victor Muller, the artist, was born in 1829 Germany and the Victor Muller, the artist I was researching, was born in 1976 Netherlands - quite a difference - as is their art.
Present-day Muller received his MFA from the Willem de Kooning Academy. His art is influenced by many of the old masters, such as: Vermeer, Fra Angelico and, most of all, Giovanni Bellini. Yet, he has distilled his own subjects and signatures works.
Interestingly, he often combines landscape backgrounds with still life foregrounds. He does this to create a "timeless atmosphere." It also seems to create a sense of surrealism where not only time, but also movement don't exist.
This blog is a sampling of his works with variations on his masterly works that are collected all over the world.
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