A large amount of peanut butter was spread on the floor of the Dutch Museum in honor of the late artist

He is particularly well-known in Holland Sesame Street-as the voice of many of the show’s characters, such as Kermit the Frog.

Schippers, who started his career within the international Fluxus art movement, conceived the artwork in 1962 Peanut butter floor (in Dutch Peanut butter floor), which was first exhibited in 1969 in the Mickery gallery in the village of Loenersloot.

The work has been exhibited several times over the years, and gradually it became the most famous work of its creator. Before his death, Schippers prepared instructions for the posthumous presentation of the work.

The instructions are now displayed next to the work in the Boijimans van Beuningen museum in Rotterdam. In them, the curators are advised to spread 15.6 kilograms of smooth peanut butter on every square meter of the floor as evenly and “monotonically” as possible.

According to the instructions, you may not stand or stand on top of the work, and you may not approach it for educational purposes.

Schippers had time during his life he realizes numerous other memorable art projects.

He made a meter high dog poo show sculpture as an everyday hymn.

He wrote a play that premiered in 1986 Going to the Dogs six German Shepherds to show.

He spread glass and sand on the gallery floor and peas on the table.

He made the stone levitate using large electromagnets in the piece It’s Me What (That’s just something).

In April of this year, he told the media that he was working on his last work, Wim is Gonein pair. However, he avoided work because he thought he was going to die.

Schippers was buried in an unknown location in the forest east of Amsterdam in the presence of a few witnesses. The saxophonist played Thelonius Monkinby one of Schippers’ favorite musicians, during the ceremony.

No marking or memorial was left at the site.

Museum director Sandra Kisters says for The Guardianthat Schippers’ influence in the Netherlands can be compared to the British Monty Python group: “He believed that life and art are always at the same time completely serious and completely non-serious.”

Like a writer F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote: “The touchstone of first-class intelligence is to keep two mutually exclusive things in mind at the same time and still remain functional.”

This kind of intelligence might produce, for example Peanut butter floorat the same time, both completely pointless and absurd and ingenious and hope-creating work, which will continue to be admired long after the author has already left our midst.

Peanut allergy sufferers are advised to avoid the exhibition space as a precaution, although serious symptoms are unlikely.

Schippers himself didn’t like peanut butter, says his friend and the president of the foundation that bears his name Titus Muizelaar The New York Timesille.

However, after his death, the peanut sandwich has been added to the menu of the Boijimans van Beuningen museum cafe.

Correction 12.7. at 9:15 The Dutch name of Schippers’ artwork is Pindakaasvloer, not Pindkaasvloer, as was mistakenly said earlier in the story.