About Hans Breuker
My themes are ambition, fun and love. I am interested in brands, images and visual culture. I mix brands with each other and seek boundaries in recognisability and pop culture.
In addition, I look for ways to visualize my own (creative) ambition and explore the possibilities as an iPad artist. Mostly with vibrant colors, mixing all kinds of popular culture into a work of art that does something to you.
Cartoon art Hans Breuker
I grew up with Donald Duck, Looney Tunes and Telekids but my first love were the comics. Suske en Wisek, Robbedoes, Tintin, Lucky Luke, everything! A neighbor was a big collector and I devoured his collection and borrowed from the library every week.
As a child I drew always and everywhere and that led to graffiti during my puberty.
Street art
My time as a graffiti artist was short but powerful. A change of school and a run-in with the law put an end to it. But the love remained. Certainly the cartoons in graffiti were my favorite, think of the crazy dentist of MOON (Tooth).
Certainly later on, through Banksy and the evolution of street art, which went beyond just tags and pieces, it sparked my love.
Own style
I 'borrow', steal and use what I feel like. As soon as you put cartoons, dolls and other visual elements in a different environment you create new work. And that's what I try to do. To throw my own sauce over existing elements, to throw them in the blender and create cool new art.
And sometimes there is even a message behind it. My struggle with alcohol for example.
Andy the Dandy
I sketched a lot in 2015 looking for gold and from that slowly but surely Andy the Dandy emerged. An art influencer with a whole story , a logo, clothing, NFTs and the whole shebang.
It's one of the characters I love to draw and experiment with. Andy is an art project itself.
iPad and acrylic
I used to paint a lot. I work fast and like to finish things. But free work is sometimes hard to sell. And my ego is too big to sell things for little. And so I slowly grew to the iPad and the art prints. And I freaking love it! Since October 2021 I make art almost exclusively on the iPad. The art for sale on this website are all limited editions, printed on demand.
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Hans Breuker (1981) was born in Amstelveen, the Netherlands, where he still lives with his wife and two daughters. With his family he goes on trips, visits museums and has many lunches and dinners. He is usually sober, but he likes to drink and celebrate life.
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