| Through the efforts of Sweden's Gothenburg Art Gallery, the United
States now has its first full-scale exhibition of the works of Swedish
realist artist, Bruno Liljefors.
Liljefors (1860-1939) remains one of Sweden's major painters, and one
of few artists in the world to succeed in depicting wildlife without
either sentimentalizing them or presenting them mainly as objects of
scientific inquiry. Liljefors once said of himself, "I paint animal
portraits."
His works have titles such as:
Eagle Owl Deep in the Forest
Midsummer Night
Elders on Skerry
Woodcock in Flight
Grebe
Gull at Nest
Wild Ducks in Horsetail Reeds
Only a handful of his canvases had ever before been exhibited in the
US, and most of those came across the pond and returned home again
toward the end of the last century.
The exhibition consists of 45 paintings and 15 watercolors and
drawings, ranging in time from a lifelike oil of "Foxes," painted in
1886, to a few of his more open and atmospheric pictures of the 1920s
and '30s.
These works will be exhibited at the American Museum of Natural History
through August 7, and after that at the James Ford Bell Museum of
Natural History, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, from Sept 9,
1988 to Jan 1, 1989.
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| I have seen and enjoyed Liljefors' art. The Swedish artist whose
work I would most like to see exhibited in this country is Carl
Larsson. Larsson is best known for depictions of home and family,
as well as some heroic murals. Not infrequently, some of his work
has appeared in Christmas cards, note cards and the like. However,
his use of color and the technique would be best appreciated by
seeing the real thing.
Are any of his works owned and exhibited by American museums?
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| From: [email protected] (AAdne Bakkane)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: Odd Nerdrum, the Norwegian painter
Keywords: modern art
Date: 2 Oct 90 13:05:14 GMT
Organization: Div. of CS & Telematics, Norwegian Institute of Technology
Just heard on Norwegian TV:
A Norwegian painter, and I think it was Nerdrum, got his paintings
refused from the annual exhibition of arts in Oslo last autumn. This
exhibition shows everything of the (modern) arts in Norway, it is the
most important exhibition. His paintings are possible to understand;
faces, people, landscapes. Not like most others, which looks like a
(often nice) mix of colors.
This year he tried again, but added some paintings under pseudonym.
Those paintings he had just maid for fun, and used 1/2 hour on each. He
thinks the paintings is rubbish (like, in his mind, most of the works
shown in the exhibition.)
These rubbish-paintings was accepted ! And the jury was impressed, even
after they got the whole story !!
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From: [email protected] (Heine Rasmussen)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: Odd Nerdrum, the Norwegian painter
Keywords: modern art
Date: 2 Oct 90 16:23:43 GMT
Organization: Norwegian School of Economics
In <[email protected]> [email protected] (AAdne
Bakkane) writes:
>A Norwegian painter, and I think it was Nerdrum, got his paintings
>refused from the annual exhibition of arts in Oslo last autumn. This
No, it was not Nerdrum; it was a much lesser known norwegian painter (I
had never heard about him before). Nerdrum would NOT be refused to
exhibit, if he had cared to submit something.
>This year he tried again, but added some paintings under pseudonym.
The pseudonym was D'erzot Rendiat (read: "Det er saa trendy, at", eng.:
"Jee, this is trendy"). No one in the committee noticed the pun.
>These rubbish-paintings was accepted ! And the jury was impressed,
>even after they got the whole story !!
Well, Rendiat's "rubbish" is actually quite fascinating - even if you
don't take his intentions (ridiculing the artistic establishment) with
the paintings into account.
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Heine Rasmussen --- <[email protected]> or <[email protected]>
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Center for Applied Research, Norwegian School of Economics
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