"As far as transience is concerned.. .You see the whole story in those shoes, that's why I paint them so accurate. The physical attitude; crooked legs, a lump. Those shoes were talking to me, and then I thought: I can see that you were so and so big, but did you also had a wife? Children? What were you doing? And what really mattered to me is my own place between them. Between those stories, that mystery. That pitch-black background [in Jopie's paintings, till c.1979-80] - I had found it. A cry for attention. Those pants, that shirt, that background, that was: here I am. But then it become mannerism. So I carried on realistically but avoiding the black background at all costs. It is as Rutger Kopland says: Whoever found it did not look well. Now I want to paint people like this, like they are made of colored mud. Color spiritualizes. (translation, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)"
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Jopie Huisman
(Workum, 18 October 1922 - 29 September 2000) was a self-taught Dutch painter and draftsman. He is best known for his portraits and for the still-life's with as their subject selected rags and old stuff, Huisman was buying up stuff as professional rag man in Workum and from 1963 in Herbayum; both are villages in Friesland.
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