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Arts of Scandinavia Final
Slide List 6 Ring-Vigeland
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Undergraduate 2
01/27/2009

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Vilhelm Hammershoi: Amalienborg Square, 1896, Denmark
- unusually large for this time, 5 by 5 ft.
-statue stands out from the background/palace due to the light streaming in from the side
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Vilhelm Hammershoi:  Dust Motes Dance in the Sunbeams Strandgade 30, 1900, Denmark
-strong vertical and horizontas of windows and doors appealled to his geometric style of painting
-light was another fascination of his
-the light creates a lively counterpart to the horizontal lines of the room
-captures a precise moment in time
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Vilhelm Hammershoi: Five Portraits, 1902, Denmark
-figures are life-size in scale
-situates the figures at the painters home
-figures push the boundaries on top and both sides of painting creating crowding
-people do not let the viewer feel welcome
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Vilhelm Hammershoi: Interior with a Piano and a Woman in Black, Strandgade 30, 1901, Denmark
-use of his common motif of a woman with her back turned to us
-woman provides an organic piece to the otherwise domestic picture
-graced with natural light and high ceilings
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Vilhelm Hammershoi: Open Doors, 1905, Denmark
-makes use of the solid geometric base of doors
-emptiness and feeling of a persons' recent leaving
-swung open doors give a feeling of mystery, not knowing what's behind
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Vilhelm Hammershoi: Portrait of a Young Girl (Ida Ilsted), 1890, Denmark
-eventually married the sitter
-figure is static and monumentalized
-background is simplified as a backdrop of muted color
-used a past photograph
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Laurits Andersen Ring: Evening. The Old Woman and Death, 1887, Denmark
-combines naturalism and symbolism
-old peasant woman has stopped to rest on road and it is implied that she will die
-painting was worked up in his studio from a posed skeleton
 
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Laurits Andersen Ring: The Lineman, 1884, Denmark
-can be read as a summary of effects of industrialization on rural life. 
-the rural farm laborer is now a lineman, his clogs still connect him back to the land
-utter sense of peace and stillness but will be shattered by loud train
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Laurits Andersen Ring: Young Girl Looking Out of a Window, 1885, Denmark
-partial view and radical cropping means he knew of Japanese influences
-can sense misty chill in air
-captures a moment frozen in time-Naturalism
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Stephan Abel Sinding: Mother Earth, 1900, Denmark
-done in marble
-weighed about 18 tons
-mother earth barely comes out of sculpture
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Stephan Abel Sinding: The Oldest of the Line, 1897-8, Denmark
-carved in wood
-carries gothic overtones
-wood was worked so that it looks tight over her joints and loose otherparts, so as to look like her old skin
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Gustav Vigeland: Angry Little Boy Crying, 1930, Norway
-made of bronze
-prime example of fleeting moment in time
-infant proclaims his distinct personality
-in the scultpture park in Oslo
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Gustav Vigeland: Camilla Collett, 1909, Norway
-was a Norwegian feminist and novelist
-Vigeland did more than 120 sketches for this work
-depicts Camilla as an old woman long after her battles have been fought
 
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Gustav Vigeland: Man and Woman with Little Child, 1917, Norway
-one of the first examples of young adults with a young child
-forms are very massive and simplified
-circles the Monolith
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Gustav Vigeland: N.H. Abel, 1902-5, Norway
-in front of the royal palace in Oslo
-was a mathematician
-central idealized male symbolizes genius itself
-worked on for 25 months
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Gustav Vigeland: Old Woman in the Arms of an Old Man, 1919, Norway
-shows that tenderness remains even in old age
-made of granite
-circles the Monolith
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Gustav Vigeland: The Monolith, 1917-1943, Norway
-made of granite
-was inspired by his previous resurrection relief
-represents struggle and yearning for the Devine
-finished the year he died
-was erected on site
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Gustav Vigeland: Tree Groups from the Fountain at Frogner Park, beg. 1914, Norway
-project is result of 40 years of design and execution
-the tree shape is like the form of the fountain
-tree is symbol of life
-entangles figures of varying ages within the tree branches-babies to skeletons
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Gustav Vigeland: Hell, 1894, Norway
-influenced by Rodan's gates of hell
-Satan sits in the front center of piece
-was his central piece of his first lone exhibition
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