Selfie - by the Artist

Just now does the Swedish National Museum have a exhibit at Konstakademien in Stockholm:

THE ARTIST - KONSTNÄREN

"Entrepreneur. Genius. Avant-Gardist. Norm-Breaker. Visionary. Traveler.

An exhibition about what it means to be an artist, today and historically. About roles, ideals and myths. About power structures and notions of gender, ethnicity, sexuality and class."

I went to the opening and realised that there was a lot of "Selfies" made by historical great artists and decided to sum up the well worth visit trough them:

Tyra Lundgren 1921, Sweden (1897-1979)

 Helene Schjerfbeck 1937, Finland-Sweden (1862-1946)

 Eugéne Jansson 1910, Sweden (1862-1915)

 Claude Cahun 1927, France (1894-1954)

 Peter Weiss 1938, Germany-Sweden (1916-1982)

 Sophie Adlersparre 1849, Sweden (1808-1862)

 Andy Warhol 1978, USA (1928-1987)

 Rembrandt 1640, Netherlands (1606-1669)

 David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl 1691, Germany-Sweden (1628-1698)

 Pehr Hörberg 1805, Sweden (1746-1816)

 Carl Gustav Plagemann 1849, Sweden-Italy (1805-1868)

Auguste Renoir 1866, France (1841-1919)

 Peter Dahl 1970, Sweden (1934)

 Siri Derkert 1915, Sweden (1888-1973)

 Julia Beck 1880, Sweden-France (1853-1935)

 Lena Cronqvist 1982, Sweden (1938)

 Jeff Koons 1988-9, USA (1955)

 Alexander Roslin 1767, Sweden-France (1718-1793)

 Georg von Rosen 1869, France-Sweden (1843-1923)

Sivert Lindblom 1986, Sweden (1931)

As You can understand, this is just a sliver of the exhibit, hope You enjoyed, Per!

Stockholm-Uppsala winter wonderland

This week I worked in Stockholm for 3 days. Hectic and fun days with a lot of work during the days at the Jewellery company Engelbert Stockholm, specially to handing out jewellery for the Fashion celebrities at ELLE galan 2016.

I did not have much time to enjoy the exceptional winter weather, more thatn on the way to and from work. And here we go:

STOCKHOLM:

Nybroviken/Strandvägen

 Stockholm Ström

 The little house I'm staying at when in Stockholm is from the end of 1600's

The view from the house over Stockholms Ström and the Old Town, here with the cruise ship from Birka Cruises.

On sunday it was time to go home to Lövstabruk in Norduppland, but I took a long walk to the train station in the splendid weather:

Stockholms Ström, the island Skeppsholmen with the ship hostel "af Chapman"

 s/s Riddarholmen

 Facade of the Royal Palace

 The House of Knights

 Stockholms ström with the City Hall and Stockholm Waterfront hotel

UPPSALA:

Due to problem with a connecting train in Uppsala where I stranded there for 2 hours, but the weather was great there as well and I was properly dressed to wander along the Fyris River:

The Uppsala Museum are situated in a old mill along the river

On the way back to the train station did I pass by the newly re-built department store Åhléns with it's exhiting facade reminding of a 20's cruiseship

Next stop on the long way home was the little town of Tierp where the sun was going down at the train station

With that I will leave you for this time, now I will enjoy a couple of great winter days at home!

Hope You do the same, Per!

In the Fantasy world of Julia af Robson

"ROOTS" is the name of Julia af Robsons latest exhibit.

I try to follow her developments in the art, loving it off course, since I love colours, and there are plenty of it compare to last years exhibit "TROLLSKOG"

I did not have good conditions for the camera, but hope you get it anyway!

Here from Galleri Hagström in Stockholm Old Town.

(For better photo quality, go to her WEBSITE)

If you are really lucky, as I was, you will have a private viewing of her art.

It starts with the BIG BANG

These are reminders from last years exhibit, but with more colours

"Roots"
"Roots is a series of paintings that can be seen as an extended version of Trollskog but bigger and with more colors. Indian ink and acrylic are the material Julia uses. Julia creates new worlds and explores patterns and relationships. She is interested in the subconscious, what is happening beyond our life and what is controlling us. She tries to create fantasy worlds that you as a viewer can escape to. Gold is a color that often recur and is to be viewed as a symbol for spirituality."

Here is one of the cool Wine labels Julia designed

It was as usual a pure pleasure to follow Julia in to the inspirational world of hers, Thank You Julia, Per!