Menno Baars

Menno Baars, Dutch contemporary artist

Baars is an artist and a cardiologist working state of medicine-art. ´The irony of starting medicine rounds is that I attended the hospital and left a changed man`, Baars said about himself, "I don't think I ever saw anything which affected me much more than this. I experienced a profound change as a person working for the sick and the deprived, and that day sat off my life´s most creative period so far." Being both physician and artist is undoubtedly one of the reasons many critics dismiss his work as a form of commercial art. When asked about the "commercialism" of his work, Baars said: "I could earn more money if I stop being a physician but I won't. My art is an extension of doing my rounds, breaking down barriers from illness to health, from captivity to freedom."

The work of Baars has been incorporated in the collections of celebrities and royal families. JFK Airport NY permanent exhibit "Understanding New York", a large original Baars. In 2008 Baars made a claim to fame by throwing paint out of a helicopter over an airplane and in 2009 Menno Baars painted the front sail of a racing yacht. In 2010 Baars painted a hot air balloon and in 2011 he painted a BMW M3 art car.

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