Raoul De Keyser is considered to be the discrete master among Belgian painters of the past fifty years. His oeuvre is idiosyncratic and tactile, consistently process-based and created without any obvious plan. In his early work he experimented with the fundamentals of painting: colour, paint and canvas. His visual idiom later became more fluid and new motifs emerged. The artist enjoyed exploring the field of tension between reality and abstraction. Painting was a game to him, a study of the possibilities painting offered. He mainly painted small, often rather curious canvases. Playful and serious, seductive and unruly.
