"In the end, his paintings have become very beautiful viewing-boxes of life. The [painting] 'Pants of Meuke' is perhaps the most striking example of an object that represents a complete life for my father. You see in the paintings exactly how he was fascinated by those people. That is because he was in that trade [of rags and old metals] with exactly those kind of people. Look at the [textile] fabrics, the tissues and the colors they contain. That gave him the opportunity to create beautiful compositions. He used the materials from his daily life to tell his own story [about them].. .When you are standing in front of a painting like the one with the 'Hats' [painted by Jopie in 1978], you are entering an universe of stories and thoughts. There is not always that much thinking about it. Because my father was someone who was very self-evident in himself. Like a fish does not realize it is in the water, until it lies on the land and thinks: 'Oh God, where is my water'. He was always in his 'own water'.. (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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