Vlčí máky, olej na plátně, 41 x 27 cm

Poppies, oil on canvas, 41 x 27 cm, signed Dennis de Kort 85
In the fields of Flanders, wild poppies grow,
there between the crosses, row after row.
Here we lie. Up among the robins,
you can hear the larks singing,
down here the canons just roar their song.
However, we will not rise again and it may seem
that yesterday we were still alive and loved.
I don't know how in whom, but in me this image evokes the end of the 1st century. Wars where the fields of Flanders, plowed over many times by artillery fire and literally drenched in the heroic blood of soldiers on both sides of the battlefield.
The author lived in the years 1920-1995. comes from a noble family in Bruges, Belgium. He is a graduate of the Ecole des Beaux Arts (Academy of Fine Arts in Paris), studied with prof. Chauvelin and de Payents.
With his beautiful realistic painting style, he mainly depicted nature and its details. The predominant technique is oils, but you can also find lithographs and combined techniques, especially with subjects of human activities, the sea and the coast.