"Raveel's goal is that because of an intruding neutral plane in the painting the attentive spectator will project himself into that plane and thus he becomes a part of the artwork. This relationship is of course simpler and more evident when the viewer sees himself in a mirror than by identifying himself with the painting by means of a monochrome plane. But the result is still the same: the creation of a unity between artwork and audience. That's Raveel's first goal. His second goal - equally important and in later art-works often coinciding with the first one - is that the painting must be able to flow out [its own borders/frame] into its surroundings and it must even be able to affect this environment. In other words: reality must become a part of the artwork."
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Ludo Bekkers in: 'Roger Raveel en zijn keuze uit het Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Gent', in Dutch art-magazine 'Openbaar Kunstbezit', Jan/Maart 1975, p. 4
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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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