Nordic art
Nordic art is the art made in the Nordic countries Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland and associated territories. Scandinavian art is art specific for the Scandinavian countries Denmark, Sweden and Norway. There are three main artistic styles in Scandinavia: Jelling style, Ringerike style, and Urnes style. Jelling is named after a Danish royal grave in Jutland and usually involves heavy animal designs. The Ringerike style includes foliage ornaments and interlacing. The style is named after the district in Norway where examples of Ringerike exist in local sandstone. The Ringerike style can also be seen in English manuscripts, and there are also some carvings in ivory which are done in this style. The Urnes style is named after the detailed designs on the carved doors of Urnes Stave Church in the Sognefjord. The style has influenced English Christian art. [1]
Viking art
Viking Age art has many elements in common with Celtic art, Romanesque art and East-European (Eurasian).
Swedish art
Among famous Swedish artists are Johan Tobias Sergel (1740–1814), Carl Larsson (1853–1919), Anders Zorn (1860–1920), Carl Eldh (1873–1954) and Carl Milles (1875–1955).
Norwegian art
Norwegian art came into its own in the 19th century, especially with the early landscape painters. Until that time, the art scene in Norway had been dominated by imports from Germany and Holland and by the influence of Danish rule. Initially with landscape art, later with Impressionism and Realism. One of Norway's most well-known artists is Edvard Munch (1863–1944).
Danish art
Danish art goes back thousands of years with significant artifacts from the 2nd millennium BC, such as the Trundholm sun chariot. Art from modern Denmark forms part of the art of the Nordic Bronze Age, and then Norse and Viking art. Danish medieval painting is almost entirely known from church frescoes such as those from the 16th-century artist known as the Elmelunde Master.
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.
Finnish art
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See also
Further reading
- Neil Kent (1987) The triumph of light and nature: Nordic art, 1740–1940, New York, N.Y.: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0500234914
- Signe Horn Fug (1980) Some aspects of the Ringerike style: a phase of 11th century Scandinavian art, Odense University Press. ISBN 8774921835
- Joan Templeton (2008) Munch's Ibsen: a painter's visions of a playwright, Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN 9780295987767
- Markku Valkonen (1992) The golden age: Finnish art, 1850 to 1907, Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö Publishing Company ISBN 9510175706
- David M. Wilson and Ole Klindt-Jensen (1980) Viking art (Translation of Vikingetidens kunst by Klindt-Jensen and Wilson), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0816609748