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Jon Thorleifsson
"Icelandic Mountain Landscape, " Modernist Post-Impressionist Cubist Fauvist View
1940

Name: "Icelandic Mountain Landscape, " Modernist Post-Impressionist Cubist Fauvist View
Brand: Jon Thorleifsson
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Jon Thorleifsson (1891 - 1961) Icelandic Mountain Landscape, 1940 Oil on canvas 32 x 46 inches Signed lower right Framed with plaque designating this painting as a gift to Thordur Stefansson (a landscape painter of his own right). Although from the Nordic country of Iceland, Jon Thorleifsson studied art in Copenhagen, Denmark. Many of his works are expressionist in style. He was influenced by Cezanne’s colorful palette and modernist, cubist, and fauvist styles, but nevertheless embraced a range of styles, including social realism, depending on his subject. His paintings of the Siglufjorour herring industry, including Fisherwomen, are well known. Fisherwomen is a large work, which was shown at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, and now decorates the lobby of the Icelandic Parliament in Reykjavík. About Icelandic Art: Icelandic art has been built on northern European traditions of the nineteenth century, but developed in distinct directions in the twentieth century, influenced in particular by the unique Icelandic landscape as well as by Icelandic mythology and culture. Contemporary Icelandic painting is typically traced to the work of Þórarinn Þorláksson, who, following formal training in art in the 1890s in Copenhagen, returned to Iceland to paint and exhibit works from 1900 to his death in 1924, almost exclusively portraying the Icelandic landscape. Þorláksson was not the only Icelandic artist learning in Denmark at that time: there were several Icelanders, both men and women, at the Academy in the closing years of the century, and these included Ásgrímur Jónsson, who together with Þorláksson created a distinctive portrayal of their home country's landscape in a romantic naturalistic style. The distinctive rendition of the Icelandic landscape by its painters can be linked to nationalism and the movement toward home rule and independence, which was very active in this period. Other landscape artists quickly followed in the footsteps of Þorláksson and Jónsson. These included Jóhannes Kjarval, Jón Stefánsson, and Júlíana Sveinsdóttir. Kjarval in particular is noted for the distinct techniques in the application of paint that he developed in a concerted effort to render the characteristic volcanic rock that dominates the Icelandic environment. Abstract art became prominent in Iceland in the mid-twentieth century, spearheaded by artists such as Svavar Guðnason and Nína Tryggvadóttir. However some of the country's prominent artists working in that period eschewed abstractionism, such as Gunnlaugur Scheving who instead favored narrative content and an approach to color and form possibly influenced by fauvism and cubism; and Louisa Matthíasdóttir, based in New York, who learned from abstract expressionism but nevertheless painted from life. Einar Hákonarson's show in 1968 distinguished itself from its Icelandic art scene then current as Hákonarson’s paintings were pop, figurative and expressionistic. This exhibition brought the figure back into the Icelandic painting, which had been dominated by the abstract art for years. Hakonarson said he was more influenced by feeling for nature, rather than by trying to paint a specific part of it. The portrayal of the landscape through visual art has remained a prominent (perhaps the most prominent) theme in Icelandic art to the present day, often reflected in the exhibitions at the country's national gallery. Its 2007 summer exhibition, for example, was called "Alas Nature!" and described as an exhibition which "aims to examine nature in a different light and from a different angle from what is generally accepted". Debate has occurred within the artistic community as to whether an appropriate balance has been struck in the support of galleries and public institutions for different media, traditions and subjects in Icelandic visual art.

Creator:
Jon Thorleifsson (1891 - 1961)
Creation Year:
1940
Dimensions:
Height: 40.5 in (102.87 cm)Width: 54.5 in (138.43 cm)
Medium:
Canvas,Oil
Movement & Style:
Post-Impressionist
Period:
Mid-20th Century
Condition:
Small pin hole.
Gallery Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU115625598222

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