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Gustaaf Sorel (Ostend, January 17, 1905 - there, May 14, 1981) was a Flemish painter and draftsman. Gustav Sorel depicted his working-class environment with the loose and smooth line of his own synthesized painting style. He underwent figurative influences as well as, later, expressionist, cubist or constructivist stimuli. His city and street views with the gray facades radiate the suffocating desolation of the deserted streets and empty alleys of the city and its inhabitants. He had an obsession with a mysterious, oppressive silence, but even in those dark canvases there is no oppressive atmosphere. Usually there is a soft light radiating from a window, door or gate somewhere - a play of light that makes the atmosphere even more intense and gives rise to all kinds of contrasts. Wikipedia: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustaaf_Sorel
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