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Arie Zuidersma 1925-2014 Art circle ''De Ploeg''.
He may be called an autodidact. He was only registered for one year at the Academie Minerva in Groningen. In 1968, Arie Zuidersma was invited to participate as a guest in the exhibitions of the Groningen art circle “de Ploeg”. He had already acquired a certain name by then. Incidentally, Zuidersma's membership of “de Ploeg” lasted only ten years. In 1978, he turned his back on that company out of disappointment about the fact that some members kept exhibiting old work.
His work is labeled as “abstract expressionist,” but Zuidersma himself considered this merely a name and nothing more. “The feelings that underlie the creative process can never be captured in words,” he said himself. Critics praise his use of color in particular. For himself, he used the standard that he should want to enter the painting in that way. “Then I know it is good,” Arie Zuidersma said.