A Review of Swedish Art
I’ve been living in Sweden for some time now and
have been thinking about the art I see around the house. I should start
by telling you there are no kat pictures, which is odd, but then I
didn’t decorate the place.
My subject today is Philip von Schantz, a famous
Swedish artist (1928 – 1998) famous for painting fruit and potatoes in
the seventies. He moved on to pots in the eighties. That’s one of his
paintings at the top of this page.
This is what they look like in real life - Too small to sleep in.
Hard for me
to understand, but there it is. After the pot phase he moved into vases
– I guess that’s what you’d call them. If you stare at them long enough
they seem to move. For this reason they were very popular with Swedes who
did not own a television.
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