Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Letters O or P
For Cee this week – a Painting of a woman with an Oval face. The painting, by Nerka, is taken from this Easter’s exhibition at Isgrannatorp. The original is in grey/black/yellow with some orange/red highlighted spots.
This time every year there are many art exhibitions in Skane, the south part of Sweden. I visited some of them, and also had some photographs of mine hanging…
The gallery in Isgrannatorp had several artists on exhibition, and Annika Ekholm’s gallery showed her own paintings as well as her son’s ceramics. Enjoy some of the art from the two galleries!
Isgrannatorp with Anders Bratt, Helen Andersson and Magnus Åkesson.
Björnekulla with Annika Ekholm. The exhibition is in the old stable.
I will go for the letter M, for Cee’s challenge:
A lonely Man on the roof, looking down at the Market in Marrakesh, Morocco.
Rain, rain…Easter Rain. But inside, indoors – there is much to be seen and contemplated this week of exhibitions and art work. And good food, and good thoughts. I will be spending this week with my children and plan to visit some nice exhibitions as well. In fact, some of my photos will be up too. Exciting…
More reportings from the exhibitions later…
Wishing you all a Happy Easter!
For Ailsa’s Travel theme this week – Colours!
In the header, the tunnel of film story in Sweden.
Lhasa, Tibet…
…and Spring of course!
Our little town is right now the lucky host of the only exhibition of Carl Larsson’s art outside Dalarna and Sundborn. A visit to this tiny, but exquisite, exhibition was on the menue today. Our 39th wedding anniversary.
Carl Larsson (28 May 1853 – 22 January 1919) was a Swedish painter representative of the Arts and Crafts Movement. His many paintings include oils, watercolours, and frescoes. But, when we think of Carl Larsson – we first of all think of his watercolours of his wife, children and home at Little Hyttnäs, Dalarna.
He considered his finest work to be Midvinterblot (Midwinter Sacrifice), a large (6-by-14-metre oil painting completed in 1915) painting now displayed inside the Swedish National Museum of Fine Arts.However, this great work was at first rejected by the board of the museum, and later sold to Japan. The fresco depicts the blót of King Domalde at the Temple of Uppsala. Decades later, the painting was purchased and placed in the National Museum, on the wall it once was intended for.
Carl Larsson was born on 28 May 1853 in the old town of Stockholm, at 78 Prästgatan. His parents were extremely poor, and his childhood was not happy. His father told the young boy that he ”cursed the day he was born”. A younger brother of Carls´ was the much loved son, but he died at an early age. Throughout his life, CL could never forget his father’s words…and…
…with him was forever the wish for being loved. Much loved.
And he found his great love in another young artist, Karin Bergöö, whom he soon married. Together they worked in perfect harmony – he painting and she designing and working mostly with textiles. She bore him 8 children.
Through their paintings and books, Little Hyttnäs has become one of the most famous artist’s homes in the world. The artistic taste and harmony of its creators made it a major line in Swedish interior design. Despite its controversialness to the style of the time. The descendants of Carl and Karin Larsson now keep the house open for tourists each summer from May until October.
My favourite Scottish horses – the Kelpies at Helix Park. For more views, click the link.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: View from the Back, Bottom or Underneath
Ailsa’s theme, shows four beautiful dresses made by designer Camilla Thulin, and four lovely spoonbills, designed by the Creator. Click the link for more of four!
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