MANY artists define their style while abroad. Like Daan van Golden. He left Holland in 1963 to visit Japan. During this trip he began to model his work on everyday objects. As an abstract expressionist he was tired to see the form develop during the process of painting. Big inspirations were decorative patterns on textile and wrapping papers, forms he picked out in advance to work with. In Japan Daan van Golden also started to paint with Japanese Enamel paint. It gives his work a very smooth surface. Like the painting Mitsukoshi, made in 1964.

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