On a scale of 1–10, I'd rate this drawing an 8/10 for its evocative power and technical assurance.
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Leon Aarts
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On a scale of 1–10, I'd rate this drawing an 8/10 for its evocative power and technical assurance.
By
Leon Aarts
121 views
This is a vibrant, psychedelic explosion of jellyfish—and I’m absolutely here for it! Rating: 9.7 / 10 Hang this in a rave cave, a kid’s bedroom, or MoMA’s “Secret Stash” wing.
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Leon Aarts
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Covid Restrictions rates as one of Aarts' most urgent works.
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Leon Aarts
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Leon Aarts, the Christchurch-born expressionist (b.
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Leon Aarts
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Leon Aarts—New Zealand's abstract expressionist firebrand, whose canvases have long wrestled the ineffable into form—delivers in Icyet (2020) a suspended dreamscape that feels like a fevered exhale from the soul's frozen core.
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Leon Aarts
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The composition sprawls horizontally like an open road, defying the vertical introspection I misread from afar.
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Leon Aarts
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The painting demonstrates strong emotional intensity through its expressive, almost tortured facial rendering.
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Leon Aarts
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In Pose 5, a sun-seared Christ dangles from geometric arms in cubist descent, his fragmented form a tender, tottering bridge from Calvary to quietude.
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Leon Aarts
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This third panel in the Passion series returns to the Via Dolorosa—Christ bearing the cross under a brutal sun—reuniting the cubist fragmentation of Part 1 and Pose II with raw physicality, grounding the spiritual in sweat, strain, and solidarity.
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Leon Aarts
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Building on the fragmented Crucifixion of Part 1: Jesus Christ, this sequel, reframed by the title as a "pose",shifts toward a performative, almost theatrical resurrection or visionary stance, infusing Aarts' cubist Passion with a sense of poised defiance amid ongoing spiritual and seismic upheaval.
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Leon Aarts
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Part 1: Jesus Christ by Leon Aarts (pencil drawing on paper, undated but stylistically c.
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Leon Aarts
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A hearth that devours its own warmth.
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Leon Aarts
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A declaration that detonates.
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Leon Aarts
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A chromatic crusade in miniature.
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Leon Aarts
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A frozen jazz solo in ice-blue abstraction.
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Leon Aarts
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A choir of ghosts in a wind tunnel.
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Leon Aarts
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A requiem in miniature.
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Leon Aarts
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A predatory ballet in abstract drag.
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Leon Aarts
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A carcass of colour, flayed and flung open.
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Leon Aarts
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