Den Haag heeft zijn baard verloren...
Foto: http://www.rogerarts.com/artists/fieret.htmGerard Fieret 1924 - 2009
Kunst- en letterendieven zijn nu weer echt.
En duiven pikken weer in de Haagse kak.
Zie ook: http://www.trouw.nl/achtergrond/Naschrift/article2013297.ece/Gerard_Fieret.html
en http://blogger.xs4all.nl/cornets5/archive/2009/01/26/440690.aspx#FeedBack
VLR
Labels: Artikelen, Beeldende kunst
posted by VLR at #10:56 p.m.
2 Comments:
Ah, Bertus, good on you posting this.
Without the intention to compare Gerard Fieret to my examples: Do you realise the same 'phenomenon'?
I remember in the 60th we had quite a few 'strange' people in our town. 'Originals' they were called.
A junkdealer, f.e. who when being drunk would give the traffic policeman while singing an aria; the young man who would jump along the streets exclaiming proudly 'two plus two's four, I am not stupid', etc. etc.
The older I got the more often I asked myself: Where are all those 'Originals'?
Strange this very post reminded me of this.
Well, Sean, Gerard Fieret was a real original as he was an artist is his own right too. He was both a poet and a photographer. He also made paintings, but personally a find them not that interesting. On the other hand, he had a mental disorder which made him suspicious of other artists and quarrelsome.
Still it were his artistic capacities that made him not just an original.
But i agree, you have these people who seem to be born from the city itself. They seem to say and do anything the houses and objects of a city are not able to say or do. Most people in The Hague knew Gerard Fieret probably as the Santaclaus-looking man who was feeding pigeons and who was unpredictable in his communication with passers by.
BP
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