Eindhoven
Eindhoven () is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, located in the southern province of North Brabant of which it is its largest. With a population of 238,326 on 1 January 2022,CoBrA Art before encountering CoBrA works, advanced Pop Art and went even ahead of the return to oil painting in the eighties. As a painter, he first executed expressionistic canvases flooded with drippings (until 1965), then he experimented with drawing (1977), watercolour, gouache, oil and acrylic painting (1976–1988). Ad Snijders explored the field of sculpture with assemblages and collages (since 1965) and mixed media (since 1974). His style has fluctuated between expressionist, figurative and abstract in very material works.
Aside of the plastic experimentalism of his works, Snijders was a highly committed artist to society. He co-created the exhibitio ''Schijt aan Schilderkunst'' (''Bollocks to Painting'', 1963) with Johan Lennarts and Van der Heyden in the gallery Pijnenborg (Eindhoven). The goal of the exhibition was provoking the not only the audience but the art world proposing an art that would make questions instead of providing answers. The following exhibition he co-created was called "Tot lering en vermaak" (1970) and Johan Lennarts and
Lukas Smits
Lukas Smits (born 23 May 1935 in Ravenswaaij) is a Dutch painter.
Lukas Smits was born in Ravenswaaij (Buren) and studied both at the Academy of Art and Design in Den Bosch and at the Jan van Eyck-Academy in Maastricht. In 1959 he received the R ...
participated in it as well. This time, the exhibition took place in th "Van Abbe Museum" and the exhibiting space was decorated as a private house. With the question "Does art in the museum still make sense?" the artists revolutionized the art world once more.
In addition to this, the artist opened a gallery called Thornfield (1984) in the space under his studio. The idea was to provide young artists a place to show their work. He put on six exhibitions a year, concentrating on the work of younger artists. Snijders co-founded as well th (1966–1972) to provide jazz musicians and visual artists with a platform in Eindhoven to collaborate and influence each other mutually.
Furthermore, he kept on intensively working on his art, exhibiting at th Van Abbe Museum Eindhoven (1957, 1959, 1961, 1970, 1987), at th Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 1958, at th Foundation De Krabbedans Eindhoven (1958, 1960,'61), at th Amsterdam (1963), at th Museum Jan Cunen Oss (1986), and at th Galerie Willy Schoots Eindhoven (1990) among others. Snijders became a member of the B.B.K. Amsterdam an died in Eindhoven on 25 February 2010.