"I don't understand how many painters can be so short-sighted to value art from earlier periods as completely worthless. Every art is an expression of an era and only for that reason already it is interesting. A Rembrandt has gone other ways, but he has certainly also pursued the highest goals. That one can assert: it is not necessary for a painter to have an impression when he is painting an Image, is nonsense. Certainly an artist, if he is really an artist, always has an inner urge to create an Image and thus sees an impression for himself that he may not always be able to explain, because deeper feelings are very difficult to grasp in words, but he has an impression - otherwise he only makes paintings as pure brain work. And intellectual art I can't bear. You can not make abstract art as something on its own. One feel various forms in their inner coherence. For example: when reading a fairy tale I can get the idea to paint a forest in completely abstract forms with motifs of trees. Every abstract form has an inner meaning for me. (translation from Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)"
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Jacoba van Heemskerck
Jacoba Berendina van Heemskerck van Beest (1. April 1876 in Den Haag - 3. August 1923 in Domburg) was a Dutch painter, stained glass designer and graphic artist who worked in several modern genres. She specialized in landscapes and still-life's.
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