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Born in the Netherlands and currently based there, Joost de Jonge evinces the assertive drama of his country’s participation in Modernism. This neo-Modernist combines the unleashed energy, the undulating line and agitated texture, of Dutch abstract expressionism -- in particular but not limited to CoBrA’s buoyant, muscular primitivism -- with the stark, color-driven compositional reasoning of De Stijl and other geometric tendencies.

But we should not regard de Jonge simply as a perfectly Dutch distillation, a painterly version of genever; he took his education and has cultivated his profile …