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“Madonna” by Edvard Munch (Norwegian) – Lithograph on paper / 1895–1902 – Ōhara Museum of Art (Kurashiki, Japan) #WomenInArt #Madonna #art #artText #artwork #EdvardMunch #Munch #ŌharaMuseumofArt #OharaMuseumofArt #大原美術館 #NorwegianArtist #NorwegianArt #BlueskyArt #Symbolism #Proto-Expressionism
Created as one of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch’s earliest lithographs and issued in multiple color and compositional versions, “Madonna” belongs to the Frieze of Life, his series on love, anxiety, and death. A woman with warm, rose-beige skin tilts her head back, eyes closed and lips softly parted, as if exhaling. Her long black hair flows over bare shoulders and merges into a dark, oval halo that pulses with red-blue tonalities. She raises both arms behind her head, creating a supple arc through neck, chest, and torso. Light pools on the abdomen and sternum while the flanks dissolve into velvety shadow. The lithographic grain gives her flesh a living softness against the enveloping field. In color impressions like this one at the Ōhara Museum of Art, the aura reads almost atmospheric (part halo, part night) so the body seems to hover between apparition and presence. In variants with the decorative frame, three sides teem with wriggling sperm forms and, at lower left, a tiny curled fetus. This biology-as-border haunts the composition’s edges, charging the stillness with the sense of impending creation. Critics have long noted its deliberate fusion of sanctity and sensuality. The blue halo recalls Marian tradition, yet her body reclaims the divine feminine as source and subject of life itself, inviting us to witness “ecstasy and pain in the act of love.” The notorious border with spermatozoa and fetus turns religious iconography into an image on conception, mortality, and the eternal feminine. Between 1895 and 1902 when this was created, Munch was haunted by illness, death, and a failed love affair with Tulla Larsen. Living in Berlin among Symbolist writers and thinkers, he explored themes of desire, spirituality, and mortality within his Frieze of Life series. Madonna reflects this turmoil by fusing sensuality and sanctity as a meditation on love, loss, and the fragile line between creation and death.
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The way he conveys movement in a calmly flowing river is unmatched. Take note of the varying colors, values and textures throughout the water.

#art #fineart #artstream #norwegianpainting #norwegianart #norwegianartist #fritsthaulow #metropolitanmuseumofart #metmuseum #realistart
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Lisbeth Bergh (Norwegian, 1861-1927), Archipelago, 1913, color #lithograph on paper.

Courtesy Det Kongelige Bibliotek, kb.dk

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Waves crash against a shore of large boulders. Small craft are at sail on the sea, and a lighthouse stands among rocks in the distance.
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#LighthouseArt of the Day

Peder Balke (Norwegian, 1804-1887), #Lighthouse on the Norwegian coast, ca. 1860, oil on board.

Courtesy Nasjonalmuseet, nasjonalmuseet.no

#art #artsky #oilpainting #MaritimeArt ##seascape #NorwegianArt #EuropeanArt #romanticism #Norway #Norge #kunst #NorskKunst #fyr
Waves crash against a rock on which a lighthouse stands under a cloudy sky.
July 22, 2025 at 10:34 AM Everybody can reply
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Oda Iselin Sønderland (Norwegian/Irish, 1996) - Linse (Lens) (2025)

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July 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM Everybody can reply
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#OdaIselinSonderland #Art #NorwegianArt #ContemporaryArt
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July 3 marks the birthday of Norwegian artist Harald Kihle (1905–1997), known for his evocative landscapes and folklore-inspired illustrations. #NorwegianArt (fot. Wikipedia)
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Edvard Munch @artistmunch #norwegianart #artontwitter.
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Edvard Munch @artistmunch #norwegianart #artontwitter
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#LighthouseArt of the Day

Theodor Kittelsen (Norwegian, 1857-1914), Skomvær #Lighthouse, 1888, #drawing, pen and pencil on paper.

Via Nasjonalmuseet, nasjonalmuseet.no

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A pencil and pen drawing showing a tall cylindrical lighthouse and smaller, one-story buildings (including a boathouse with a crane) standing on an inlet on a rocky shoreline. A figure is seated on the ground across the inlet from the boathouse. The drawing is signed, named, and dated in the lower right corner.
June 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM Everybody can reply
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Per Lasson Krohg, (18 June 1889 - 3 March 1965) Norwegian painter who was one of the major figures in the revival of mural painting in Norway after 1920.
The Shadow, 1914-1915, oil on canvas, 106x31cm., Private collection
#BornOnThisDay #NorwegianArt #OilPainting
June 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM Everybody can reply
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#LighthouseArt of the Day

Sophus Jacobsen (Norwegian, 1833-1812), #Lighthouse on the Norwegian coast, 1855, oil on canvas.

Private collection, via Christie's, christies.com.

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A lighthouse stands atop a tall, craggy rock in the far distance, silhouetted against a dramatic, cloudy twilight sky. An expanse if rocky coastline is in the foreground, with a man pulling a sailboat up onto the beach. A second sailboat is at sail on the mirror-still water. The palette consists entirely if earth tones.
June 15, 2025 at 10:08 AM Everybody can reply
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Ragnhild Kaarbø
Norwegian artist
1889-1949
Composition with a Head, c.1925
oil on canvas

#Norwegianart
May 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM Everybody can reply
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Harald Dal
Norwegian artist
1902-1972
Composition, 1942

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May 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM Everybody can reply
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Merton, Erling
Norwegian artist
1898-1967
Robåt ved brygge, 1956
oil on canvas
46" x 55"

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May 24, 2025 at 11:18 AM Everybody can reply
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"Woman Reading by a Window" by Jacob Sømme (Norwegian) - Oil on canvas / 1890 - Skagens Museum (Denmark) #WomenInArt #ArtText #art #OilPainting #PortraitofaWoman #WomensArt #Reading #JacobSømme #Sømme #JacobSomme #NorwegianArtist #artwork #SkagensMuseum #NorwegianArt #Skagensmalerne #ScandinavianArt
This 1890 painting by Norwegian artist Jacob Kielland Sømme depicts a mature woman seated in profile at a round table near a window. She is dressed in a long, light-colored dress and a dark, patterned scarf covering her head and shoulders. Her posture is slightly hunched as she concentrates on a book held in her hands. The woman wears glasses and appears to be middle-aged. The room is sparsely furnished. A wooden table with a reflective surface is in the foreground, near the window. Several potted plants sit on the windowsill, adding a touch of life to the scene. Behind the woman, there is a tall side table with a woven basket resting upon it. The room's walls are painted a deep blue, creating a cool, somewhat somber atmosphere. The window shows a view of a beach or coastal scene, with suggestions of buildings and sand in the distance. The light streaming in from the window creates a contrast with the dimly lit interior, highlighting the woman and her book. The overall mood of the painting is serene, pensive, and slightly melancholic. The loose, expressive brushwork suggests an impressionistic style, with a focus on capturing the light and atmosphere rather than precise detail. Sømme often painted scenes from everyday life in Skagen, including fishermen at work, beach scenes and landscapes. His paintings were popular with critics and collectors alike, and he received numerous awards and honors during his lifetime. Skagen was home to the Skagensmalerne (aka Skagen Painters), a group of Scandinavian artists who gathered in the village in the northernmost part of Denmark, from the late 1870s until the turn of the century. The artists shared the fact that they were inspired by naturalism and open-air painting and sought new places and motifs. Skagens Museum was founded in 1908 in order to collect and preserve the works of the Skagen artists’ colony in the environment in which they were created.
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#LighthouseArt of the Day

Peder Balke (Norwegian, 1804-1887), #Lighthouse on the Norwegian coast, 1855, oil on canvas mounted on lamella board.

Nasjonalmuseet, nasjonalmuseet.no

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A painting done entirely in earth tones shows a lighthouse tower painted white with a horizontal red band standing on a rock on the shore of a turbulent sea. Massive, dark storm clouds dominate the scene, with a clearer patch of sky at the lower left suggesting a storm is either gathering or passing.
May 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM Everybody can reply
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Simeon Marcus Larson (Swedish, 1825-1864), Rough sea in moonlight with #lighthouse, 1859, oil on canvas.

Nasjonalmuseet, nasjonalmuseet.no

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A lighthouse, a red-orange light shining from its lantern stands on a rock against which large waves are breaking. A ship is at sea, listing heavily as the waves toss it. The sky is filled with black clouds, with moonlight breaking through.
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#LighthouseArt of the Day

Johan Christian Dahl (Danish-Norwegian, 1788-1857), "Kullens #fyr" ("Kullen #Lighthouse"), 1817, pencil on paper.

#Nasjonalmuseet, #Oslo, nasjonalmuseet.no

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A sketch of a tilting lighthouse mechanism, considting of a wooden tripod base supporting an angled wooden beam. The elevated left end of the beam is hosting a metal basket into the air, from which smoke billows. Handwritten text at the bottom reads (in Norwegian) "The Kullen Lighthouse, 15 December 1871."
April 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM Everybody can reply
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#LighthouseArt of the Day

Christian Krohg (Norwegian, 1852-1925), "Seaman sees the #lighthouse," after 1900, oil on canvas.

Museum Kunst der Westküste, mkdw.zetcom.net

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"The sea is cloaked in a heavy, jet-black night, from which the silhouette of a fisherman rises up on the right. His oilskins and sou’wester shimmer in rich yellow, orange and green. Leaning on the railing, he peers through binoculars at the lighthouse signal flashing brightly off in the background." (Description from the website of Museum Kunst der Westküste)
April 2, 2025 at 9:30 AM Everybody can reply
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#LighthouseArt of the Day

Betzy Akersloot-Berg (Norwegian, 1850-1922), "Norwegian coast," n.d., etching.

Via Wikimedia Commons.

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A black-and-white etching of a tall lighthouse tower standing on a hill by the sea; a cluster of small buildings are on the shore to the right, and there are more hills in the distance.
March 31, 2025 at 11:31 AM Everybody can reply
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#LighthouseArt of the Day

Betzy Akersloot-Berg (Norwegian, 1850-1922), "Gezicht op west (View to the west)," n.d., oil on canvas.

📸 via Museum 't Behouden Huys Terschelling, behouden-huys.nl

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The painting, in an elaborate gold-colored frame, shows a lighthouse standing on a rocky coast near the sea, its image reflected in the water.
March 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM Everybody can reply
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Betzy Akersloot-Berg (Norwegian, 1850-1922), "The old lighthouse, Vlieland," n.d., oil on canvas.

📸 via Ubbens Art, ubbensart.com

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The scene shows sand dunes on a beach. One of them is overgrown with beach grass and/or other vegetation with a path leading up to a lighthouse tower and a one-story house. A seagull is flying to the right of the image, while more wheel in the sky in the background. The style is impressionistic, and earth tones predominate.
March 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM Everybody can reply
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Exhibition in Bergen last fall - Hanne Friis «FLOM»
#textileart #norwegianart #kodebergen
March 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM Everybody can reply
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Adam Ditchburn-Schulz
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This is Edvard Munch
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Ashes (1894/5)
By Edvard Munch
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