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Heerup is perhaps the most popular artist in Denmark, and with good reasons.
Everybody finds nearness and something relating in his very humane works
of art, that usually tells a little story.
During summer Heerup painted in his famous garden, and during winter he
switched the paint bruches with hammer and chisel to form sculptures in
stone, and in between he carved his black and white wood cuts, that was
later replaced by colorful litographs.
Besides paintings, sculptures, wood cuts and litographs, Heerup gave new
life to old scraped things.
Heerup gets the last word and tells: 'The nature of garbage models is
to preserve themselves, and still be able to change (...) a piece of wood,
caps, bicycle handlebars, etc. must preserve their own patina solidary
to the form. To paint upon these would have a harmful effect. It would
break the whole. Anything can be used to produce garbage models. In the
same way you compose a painting or a sculpture, you make the garbage model
(...) My garbage models are not colorful. They have no rainbow colors
but the patinated harmony of nature.
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