Brook lamprey, Hieronymus Bosch, De Stijl art

This March 2014 Dutch video is about brook lamprey mating season in a stream not far from Apeldoorn city in Gelderland province.

There is a stream in the Apeldoorn city center as well: the Grift.

This January 2013 video is about how the Grift was reconstructed a few years ago, back from underground to above ground, in Apeldoorn.

Brook lampreys now mate in the center of Apeldoorn. This species is a sign of good water quality. Northern pikes now live in the center of Apeldoorn as well.

On 2 April 2017, we went to Apeldoorn. In the Grift stream, we saw many water plants, and a brook lamprey.

We continued to the CODA museum. There was an exhibition of modern jewelry by twelve artists, inspired by paintings of Hieronymus Bosch.

Eg, there were these fantastic animals, inspired by Bosch, made in aluminium (and gold) in 2016 by Sylvia Blickman from Haarlem. All photos in this blog post are cellphone photos.

Also by Sylvia Blickman, also from 2016 and in aluminium, these other Hieronymus Bosch-inspired fantastic animals.

There were other exhibitions in the museum as well.

Eg, an exhibition on De Stijl, the well-known abstract art movement founded in 1917, a century ago.

One artist who joined the De Stijl movement, in 1924, was César Domela (1902-1992). He was a son of the first Dutch socialist MP, later anarchist, Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis.

However, already in 1925 Domela clashed with prominent De Stijl member Piet Mondriaan. According to Mondriaan, a true De Stijl artist should only depict horizontal and vertical lines. While Domela started to use diagonal lines as well. De Stijl founder Theo van Doesburg, likewise, started to use diagonal lines, contrary to Mondriaan‘s rules.

De Stijl influenced not only painting, but also, eg, furniture design; and toy design.

These are toy cars, made in the 1925-1955 period in Apeldoorn and elsewhere, designed by Koo Verzuu, inspired by the simple geometric De Stijl forms. They were called Ado toys (nothing to do with The Hague football club ADO).