Pieter Frans Christiaan Koch, better known as Pyke Koch (July 15, 1901 – October 27, 1991), was a Dutch player who painted in a illusion realist manner.
Pyke Koch and the painter Carel Willink are considered to be the foremost representatives in the Netherlands of Magic Realism, a style of painting in which the scenes depicted seem realistic nevertheless uncanny or unlikely.
His paintings feat many details. Some art historians, notably Carel Blotkamp, have suggested that these details may contain hidden messages and references to his personal life. The sham does contain many references to earlier periods in the records of art. He was certainly much inspired by painters of the Italian quattrocento, most notably the conduct yourself of Piero della Francesca.
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