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THE PLAN WAS TO BE TOGETHER FOREVER – After playing love story, you can feel you had heard it before
Their song “American Love Story” was also featured as the theme for the Netflix series The Ranch. Their second EP, Extended Play, was released in early 2016. The band was founded in 2013 and its name is short for Lancaster & Company. Lanco https://www.lancomusic.com/ is an American country music band, consisting of Brandon, Chandler, Jared, Tripp and Eric. “American Love …
Read More »WINNING PORTRAITURE WORK AND WORKING FRIENDSHIP – The rooted painting time of Thomas Pollock Anshutz
THOMAS POLLOCK ANSHUTZ 1/3 – He was born in Kentucky. In 1871, he moved to study art in New York, where he lived with an uncle. In the fall of 1876, he took classes in life drawing, anatomy, and painting at the newly reopened Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. He began to emulate his supervisor’s approach to …
Read More »THOMAS POLLOCK ANSHUTZ (1851/1912), AMERICAN PAINTER – Capturing the essential sculptural mass of the objects
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Read More »ICELAND BY Björk, Sigur Rós and Múm
It’s impossible to deny the influence of the place, where Björk, Sigur Rós and Múm have developed their musical creativity, along with many others Icelandic musicians. From folk to jazz, to metal and rock, there is something in common – the desire of musical creativity of those, who live in Iceland. Create a special sound quality seems to be the …
Read More »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 …
Read More »GISLI SIGURDSSON (1930/2010), ICELANDIC PAINTER – Inspired by magnificent landscapes
Soundtrack: Sigur Rós / Festival, free MP3. The intellectual property of the images that appear in this blog correspond to their authors. The sole purpose of this site, is to spread the knowledge of these painters and that other people enjoy their works.
Read More »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 …
Read More »KAROLINA LARUSDOTTIR, ICELANDIC PAINTER – Painting imaginary people in strange situations
Soundtrack: Sigur Rós / Di Do, free MP3. The intellectual property of the images that appear in this blog correspond to their authors. The sole purpose of this site, is to spread the knowledge of these painters and that other people enjoy their works.
Read More »PROMPTED BY TANGIBLE EXTERNAL STIMULUS – Jónas HallgrÃmsson
He is remembered for his poems describing Icelandic scenery. Jónas HallgrÃmsson (1807/1845), was one of the most popular of Iceland’s Romantic poets. He was born at the farm Hraun in Oxen Valley, in north central Iceland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4fPc0Gvepk He lost his father when he was nine. It was a great metropolis that fostered his poetic gift, although the roots of his …
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