Lau Heidendael - Beautiful impressionistic watercolor "still life with fruit bowl" 1984 - signed - Sold

• LAU HEIDENDAEL

Lau Heidendael has gained great fame with his watercolours. He applies a few touches and lets the white of the paper play a major role, the classic free way of watercolouring.
It is impossible to have an all-encompassing knowledge and a sufficient expression of our reality. Man has the sense of a longing for a greater world than his subjective. This longing is strengthened by the knowledge that it is impossible to express this subjective perfectly. This longing and this powerlessness gives rise to poetry.
The individual work gains its value by evoking the awareness of the whole. Each individual work is an organic part of the whole. Making a painting is an attempt to make the suspicion of the big picture visible. A theme is important if it has enough unconscious attraction and touches enough sensitivities. This attraction and sensitivities belong to intuitive thinking. By using this, a depth beyond common sense is possible.
(source: Heijningen Art Gallery)