Tag Archives: ICELANDIC PAINTER

PAINTING MOUNTAINS AND GLACIERS FIGURATIVE WAY – Gisli Sigurdsson

GISLI SIGURDSSON 1/3 – He was born in 1930 and brought up on a big farm (near middle of Iceland). He became a journalist at a young age, and began painting. He has been painting for 50 years, inspired first by magnificent mountain landscape, glaciers and lava. After 1950, the thrust of modernism was very common among artists and he …

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GISLI SIGURDSSON (1930/2010), ICELANDIC PAINTER – Inspired by magnificent landscapes

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WOMEN IN COLOURFUL DRESS AND DARK-SUITED MEN – Karolina Larusdottir

KAROLINA LARUSDOTTIR 1/3 – She was born in Reykjavik in 1944 and lived and worked in the British Isles (from the mid sixties for nearly fifty years). Now she lives again in her homeland of Iceland. Many of her contemporary paintings are rooted to her upbringing in Iceland. She remembers the Iceland of her childhood, as a country barely touched …

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KAROLINA LARUSDOTTIR, ICELANDIC PAINTER – Painting imaginary people in strange situations

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GUOMUNDUR THORSTEINSSON / MUGGUR (1891/1924), ICELANDIC PAINTER – From Iceland’s frigid shore

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