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Article: Herman de Vries: chance and change.(Interview)
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- Etc. Montreal
- Article date:
- June 1, 2007
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Herman de Vries's sense of a transcendent unity is both mystical and functional. Texts of Zen Buddhism and the Hindu verses of the Upanishads influenced his early artworks. In 1959 he made his first white painting. Trained as a scientist, de Vries worked as a researcher at the Institute of Applied Biology in Nature in Arnhem, Holland, until 1968. His artistic output in the 1960s was entirely separate from his scientific work, although the randomness and chance round in his art were encountered in the use of random number tables and the statistical design of biological experiments. De Vries's belief in the capacity of art to communicate, and his sense of objectivity, led ...
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... ... concerning three suspicions in respect of Mr. De Vries, Chairman of the Executive Board of TenCate ... of this, there is no question of Mr. De Vries having a direct or indirect involvement ... million mentioned in the media that Mr. De Vries received in 1996 related to a financial ...
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