Another View of Delft (2026) Original Acrylic Painting by Steve White

I am a big fan of pop art and abstract painting so it is counterintuitive for me to call Vermeer's relatively conventional 'View of Delft' (1660/61) as the perfect painting but there you go - there is something about the colours and composition which sends the dial on my internal Tingle-o-Meter right up to 11. And, furthermore, it is totally bonkers of me to want to update a famous painting which I already consider unimprovable. But then I came across Pablo Picasso's 'Mediterranean Landscape' (1952) and figured there were certain similarities which meant that I could bridge the 300 year old stylistic age gap between the two paintings. I didn't play around with Picasso's earthquake zone perspectives because I am not that clever but I used his very loose, rough and ready, childlike style and threw in some bright Mediterranean colours. Thanks also to Roy Lichtenstein for the sky and the sandbank. The ripples I made up all by myself.

Materials used:

Acrylics

Details:

• Acrylic painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 120 x 80 x 3.5cm (unframed) / 120 x 80cm (actual image size)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Impressionistic
• Subject: Architecture and cityscapes