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This exhibit
of the life work of Flip Schrameijer makes its first stop in the United
States at the Janice Mason Art Museum following its appearance at The
Academy of Fine Art, Eeklo, Belgium and the Marie Tak van Poortvliet
Museum, Domburg, Zeeland, The Netherlands. The exhibit consists of over
150 drawings and paintings spanning 60 years.
Flip
Schrameijer was born in 1919 in Amsterdam. He survived World War 2 and
its many tragedies, partially by immersing himself in art. Along with his
career as a painter he taught drawing and painting. Then in the 1960s he
relocated to the village of Bussum and was a member of the Gooi Circle of
Graphic Artist. His interest in the last 35 years has been the special
atmosphere and light found around the coast of the Dutch-Belgium border.
Brian Dudley Barrett says
in the exhibit catalog: “An artist’s sense of place should never be
underestimated. Flip Schrameijer’s life’s work illustrates well this
maxim, not by his seeking out the spectacular, but by his contact with
the more gentle, contemplative, subdued horizons of his surroundings.”
Barrett further says: “(Schrameijer). . . brings simplicity of line and
form, and the intensity, of this broad landscape into balance.”
This exhibit promises to
make personal the artist’s perspective of the shorescape and unique light
of the Dutch seaside. Among this vast collection of etchings and
watercolors expect to find portraits and beach scenes, both alive and
intensely human.
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