Saturday, February 28, 2009

The Art of Henri Rousseau

Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) was ridiculed in his own lifetime, but posthumously achieving his ambition of having his work exhibited in the Louvre, he is nowadays considered a talented Naïve painter. With the revolutionary changes in art in the start of the 20th century came a reappraisal of previously dismissed genres, including Naïve painting. (Rousseau, Henri. The Dream. c. 1910. oil on

Sunday, February 22, 2009

The Art of Peter Callesen

Peter Callesen (1967 - present) was born in Demark. His paper works are literally results of folding – and cutting. On top of a story that include various symbols that we recognise from fairy tales and other archetypical storytelling, and thus integrating all those narratives that we know from reading books and watching films about castles and princesses and monsters and darkness and a lot of

Friday, February 13, 2009

The Art of Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker and is now regarded as one of modern art's most influential and electrifying protagonists. He was born in a rustic farmhouse in Loten, Norway. In 1879 Munch enrolled in a technical college to study engineering, where he excelled in physics, chemistry, and math. He learned scaled and perspective drawing, but frequent illnesses