Collectors Bram and Sandra Dijkstra saw value in 'discarded art.'
Art collector Bram Dijkstra has a good eye for art as well as a bargain.William Gropper's"Hostages," also known as"The Invaders" is an oil on canvas circa 1942.The art he’s referring to was part of the government sponsored, which gave artists a weekly stipend in exchange for art. But thousands of artists regularly creating work for years left the U.S. government with more art than it could manage.
"Art for the people was obviously not what the museums wanted in the 80s and 90s, and not until fairly recently," Bram said. Mingalone appreciates the diversity of the Dijkstra collection and how it resonates for today’s challenging times. "It's both a critical painting and a painting in which the artist resolves a very complex compositional structure," Bram said."One of the objectives of this collection and the show was to bring back the political dimension but to also show the art of the period included many different things," Sandra said.
"This is Mulholland Drive in L.A. And he's showing all the cracks in the road and are you going to fall off a cliff when you drive down that road?" Sandra added."This is one of those paintings, in which there is an implicit political message as opposed to explicit because this is 1945 and there's a very ominous black plane up there. Some of the viewers have said this is California noir.
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