For Bart van Polanen Petel, mixing his two loves – painting and boxing – is a dream come true. The former student of boxer Joe Frasier, has converted his boxing gym in Tilburg, Netherlands into an art studio.
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His technique involves wrapping a canvas around a punching bag. After that he dips his gloves into paint to create literally – knockout pieces of art. His interest in painting was sparked five years ago when he met his girlfriend, artist Nonie Buijze. Eventually his understand of art changed.
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“Before that time, when I looked at a typical Mondriaan painting, the familiar thought 'anybody can do this' came to mind,” he told the Huffington Post. Just like how a regular painter knows his technique, canvas, paint and brush, Petel also understands how the paint reacts to certain punches as well as the interaction of colours.
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“Also left and right are defined different when you are working with paint on a 'round' surface," he explains, according to the Huffington Post. "After a while you get used to it and you know what punch gets you what result. It is not about filling the canvas with paint, it is about how I can visualize the process. He describes his paintboxing pieces as “Abstract Expressionism”.
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