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  • JOHANNES VERMEER: PREPARING OUR VISIT

    6 april 2023

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  • DEN HAAG MAURITSHUIS: JAN STEEN & REMBRANDT

    23 maart 2023

    Het Mauritshuis owns several important paintings of Jan Steen a.o.: 'As the Old sing, so Pipe the Young' and 'The life of Man'. Because I started a painting after Jan Steen ('The Drinker') it would have been great to see it in reality but that is impossible. Jan Steen's birth weight ( just like my husband's) was 11 pounds. Looking at Jan's hands on this painting, I think that they are rather small. Our Steen's have big, strong hands and feet.

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  • CHOOSING VINCENT & JAN: JO BONGER

    20 maart 2023

    'Choosing Vincent' in the Van Gogh Museum is not only an exhibition about doubt and triumph but also a tribute to Jo Bonger, Vincent's sister-in-law. Because I own several little 60 years old books published by Vincent Willem van Gogh (Vincent's neveu), the family-pictures and diaries were very interesting. And of course the Nabis paintings made in our beloved Bretagne where I had an exhibition in La Chapelle Notre Dame de La Paix au Pouldu. I wish all our Breton friends (Morbihan, Finistère and Côte d'Armor) could see these Breton paintings (peintures de Breizh) in Amsterdam.

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  • JAN STEEN IN FRANS HALS MUSEUM HAARLEM

    14 maart 2023

    After four hours of painting in the Studio (in the centre of my native city) I visited the Frans Hals Museum , which is just 2 minutes away on my 🚴 , to see and study The Quack of Jan Steen. It is astonishing, how much is happening on Jan's painting (Dutch life) in the 17th century.

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  • HAARLEMSE DICHTLIJN

    8 maart 2023

    The poets of Haarlemse Dichtlijn will play a significant role during the upcoming Vijfhoekkunstroute 2023.

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  • ETCHING IN SPAARNDAM

    12 februari 2023

    A sundaymorning-bicycle-trip on my ebike to Spaarndam, our neighbour- (Hans Brinkers) village. I made a dry-needle-etching of the Breton dolmen Bot er Mohet in several colours. Such a difference between our flat country full of canals & bridges and the green hills of Brittany. But . . . both so beautiful.

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  • DADA AND FLUOR IN ARCHITECTONISCH KUNSTHISTORISCH CENTRUM

    26 januari 2023

    Visiting this DADA exhibition of a.o. Peter Bruyn, I examined the impressive ABC buildingplans around Fluor and then spoke with an ex-fluor colleague after more than 50 years.

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  • JOLI COEUR

    24 januari 2023

    She is painted on 'Nous Ensemble' and hundreds of little drawings are made of notre petite Chienne Trouvée de Keranroué: Joli Coeur. Even our house is named after this unforgettable, little Breton dog: 'Ti Joli Coeur'.

    Merci mon poupon.

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  • THE DRAWING IS PUBLISHED

    18 januari 2023

    The drawing 'Bestormt de Meesters!' is published on the homepage of Vijfhoekkunstroute.

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  • GEDICHT 'BESTORMT DE MEESTERS'

    16 januari 2023

     

    Bestormt de Meesters!

     

    De Nieuwe Kerk verwelkomt u

    entree, entree, betreedt haar nú

    komt saam, gelijk de mensen hier

    naar kunst-en-poëzie-vertier

     

    De Vijfhoek glanst van deur tot deur 

    de winkels stralen in hun kleur 

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