#swedishart — Public Fediverse posts
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Girl with a Cigarette I -- Anders Zorn -- Etching -- 1891 -- Art Institute of Chicago -- Public Domain
#Art #AndersZorn #Print #Etching #Smoking #Cigarette #SwedishArt #19thCenturyArt
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"The View Toward the City," Torsten Jovinge, 1930.
Jovinge (1898-1936) was a Swedish Modernist painter who had a brief but influential career.
He called his style "Purism" and was seen to be influenced by Cubism, with his use of colorful shapes in his work. But rather than distorting his subjects, or playing with perspective, he represents in his own way. He breaks them down into shapes but still retains some shading and texture.
His works were popular in his home country and were an influence on Swedish Modernism. He did a number of works set in various parts of Europe. He began painting and developed his style in the 1920s, traveling in Paris and other areas, and staying mostly in Sweden and Denmark in the 30s.
In 1936, he decided to travel to Morocco to paint, and during a stopover in Seville he was found shot to death in his hotel room. Spanish authorities, at the time caught up in the Spanish Civil War, claimed it was suicide, but the general agreement is that it was murder for unknown reasons.
From a private collection.
#Art #TorstenJovinge #Purism #PostCubism #Modernism #SwedishArt #UnsolvedMystery
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In case we lose track of the real meaning of Christmas, here is 'The Dying Anti-Christ Surrounded By His Grandchildren', by Ivar Arosenius, 1906. #AntiChrist #diabolism #Satanism but also #SwedishArt #WyrdWednesday and #Christmas
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"No. 57.26 February," Anna Cassel, 1915.
It's not a shock to find out that Cassel (1860-1937) was a close friend and associate of Hilma af Klint, now regarded as the first real abstract artist. Af Klint founded "De Fem," (meaning "The Five,") a spiritualist group that practiced "automatic writing/art", that is, allowing one's hand to be guided by purportedly spiritual/supernatural forces.
Cassel, whose work before De Fem had mostly been unremarkable landscapes, participated in many seances that involved creation of works like this. In fact, notebooks were passed around to the various members of the circle to do their drawings in...this has led to some confusion about who did what work. A forthcoming book about Cassel insists that she did some work that is currently attributed to af Klint.
So, was Cassel really the first Abstract artist? Impossible to say, but I'm glad to find out about her.
It's an enigmatic work, to put it mildly. I've been unable to identify the gold symbols; the one of the left might be the symbol for Aries, but I can't place anything like the one on the right. Ideas?
From a private collection.
#Art #SwedishArt #AnnaCassel #AbstractArt #DeFem #HilmaAfKlint #WomenArtists
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Eye Candy for Today: Carl Larsson’s Karin by the Shore. For link to high-res image & more info, see my Lines and Colors post: http://linesandcolors.com/2024/02/10/eye-candy-for-today-carl-larssons-karin-by-the-shore/ #art #watercolor #carllarsson #swedishart #watercolour #19thcenturyart
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Eye Candy for Today: Carl Larsson domestic interior. For link to large image & more info, see my Lines and Colors post: http://linesandcolors.com/2024/02/01/eye-candy-for-today-carl-larsson-domestic-interior/ #art #illustratin #inkandwatercolor #watercolor #carllarsson #swedishart #interiorpaintings
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"Now It's Christmas Again," Carl Larsson, 1907.
Larsson (1853-1919) was a Swedish painter who was one of the great figures of the Arts and Crafts Movement in Scadinavia. He was best known for his paintings of idyllic family life and illustrating an ideal home. He and his wife worked hard to create what they regarded as the perfectly decorated home, and he depicted it in many meticulous paintings and illustrations that later were a huge influence on Swedish design, and nothing like what one sees at IKEA.
Happy holidays, all!
From the Helsingborgs Museum, Sweden.
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"Self Portrait," Mimmi Zetterström. 1876.
Zetterström was a Swedish painter who journeyed to Paris to learn and work; there her depictions of Lapland and its people won attention. She also became a sort of den mother to Swedish artists in Paris, and helped them network and get their work shown.
The painting she's working on here is a real one by Zetterström, "Dalfolk." So we're not just getting treatment of an interior, but also a waggish work-within-a-work.
And I'm doing a theme this week, have you noticed?
From the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
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Against The Current, 1919 #swedishart #anderszorn https://www.wikiart.org/en/anders-zorn/against-the-current-1919
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A Christmas present from Sweden - “Mini CD moving - computer ink plot” by Beck & Jung, 1985. #BeckAndJung #ComputerArt #PlotterDrawing #GenerativeArt #DigitalArt #Triangles #Rainbow #ColourSpectrum #SwedishArt #SwedishArtist #Sweden #Lund #Malmö #HolgerBäckström #BoLjungberg