"Around 1950 Raveel started to question the usual role of the spectator by actively involving him in the final realization of his paintings. He realized this by keeping empty certain parts in the painting – creating only abstract color surfaces or by cutting off some corners. This he did literally or by means of a painted diagonal. So the spectator himself have to fill in the missing elements. Due to this new way of observing and displaying Raveel got a separate - somewhat isolated - [artistic] position, both in the artist-scene of Ghent and beyond."
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Roger Raveel
Roger Henri Raveel (15 July 1921 – 30 January 2013) was a Belgian (Flemish) painter, whose work is often associated with Pop art because of its depiction of everyday objects. Most of his art is figurative painting; for some years he painted abstract.
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