Showing posts with label Nikolai Astrup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nikolai Astrup. Show all posts

Monday, June 13, 2016

Observingart: Nicolai Astrup at HOK 10. juni - 11. september 2016

Nikolai Astrup,
Marsmorgen, ca 1920
As one of the most renowned Norwegian artists, Nikolai Astrup's work transforms the rugged Norwegian landscape into a mythical, living entity. This is the first international exhibition of his paintings and prints. At HOK the exhibition is expanded with new contemporary artworks that treat the relationship between life, ecology and sustainability with the same commitment as Astrup did.

Read more at Henie Onstad ArtCentre



Is Astrups' "Marsmorgen" a genuine expression of natures own, organic, primal cry 
(un)like to or in dialogue with Munchs "Cry"? 

Monday, March 7, 2016

Observingart: reviews

Nikolai Astrup: Painting Norway, Dulwich Picture Gallery.

"Magical in every sense"
Read more in The Telegraph

"Norwegian painter Nikolai Astrup emerges from obscurity".
Read full review in The Guardian

St. Hansbål ved Jølstravatnet   Photo: Øystein Løge

Friday, February 19, 2016

Observingart: Nikolai Astrup at Dulwich Picture Gallery



Dulwich Picture Gallery presents the radically innovative works of Norwegian artist Nikolai Astrup (1880 - 1928) for the painter and printmaker's first ever major London exhibition - and indeed the world's, outside of Norway. 

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