page_title: Rob Møhlmann
section_title: Development as an artist
hierarchical_section_title: Rob Møhlmann / Biography / Development as an artist
caption_attribution_description: English: Rob Møhlmann painting
context_page_description: Rob Møhlmann is a Dutch artist, poet and writer of art books. He would predominantly manifest himself as a visual artist, but also wrote several articles, collections of poems, and dozens of books on art. In addition, he started his own museum "to house art that represents something", conceived and organized numerous exhibitions. He would also accumulate a large art collection.
context_section_description: In 1981 he painted, for the first time, the same still life from three different angles, as well as the same still life from four angles (opposite sides). His goal was to enforce a more realistic view of the objects. Henceforth Møhlmann consistently painted 1:1, i.e. the actual size of the object as seen. During the eighties the painter began a number of projects and series. One of them being the so-called Cantoproject (later called the Canto Collection), which could very well be considered his "magnum opus" and comprises the period 1982-1993. It has the subtitle "a glance at reality", and includes 124 paintings. All paintings have the same size and always show one and the same tin can (of the fictitious brand Canto) at the same place in the painting. Furthermore, the tin has always been depicted in the same size and is perceived at the same angle. Due to the constantly changing environment of the can, the series as a whole grew into a kind of pictorial adventure within the context of (seemingly) everyday reality. He also produced the series ‘Damaged’ or ‘Destroyed Canvasses’, in which the illusion is created that the canvas is torn or damaged. During 1984 he worked on ‘The Cube’  (‘A Contemporary Allegory’) for almost nine months. The work consists of 5 panels that together form a cabinet in which and on which all kinds of everyday objects are painted, often with a symbolic meaning. In 1985 the painter started with ‘The Balance Series’, in which he placed a still life on an empty canvas. Initially this was a single object, but over time increasingly complex stackings emerged.
caption: Yes, I'll fetch a cloth (1997). Example of "Top-down painting"
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