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Tof Vanmarque’s Recent Acrylic Paintings

Tof Vanmarque continues to evolve the shifting perspectives and details of his elaborate acrylic paintings. One of the hallmarks of Vanmarque’s style is blending lush hues with makeshift bodies and eroding structures, each scene its own strange narrative. The artist was last featured on our website here.

Tof Vanmarque continues to evolve the shifting perspectives and details of his elaborate acrylic paintings. One of the hallmarks of Vanmarque’s style is blending lush hues with makeshift bodies and eroding structures, each scene its own strange narrative. The artist was last featured on our website here.

“The artist creates an imaginary world to talk about what inspires him most, our society both globally and humanly,” one statement says, as translated. “Using a precise technique, he manages to distort the subject while maintaining all the peculiarities in order to keep the objective power of the elements constructing the narration of the painting.”

See more of his work below.

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