{"title":"Jaget och världen speglade i förra sekelskiftets nordiska måleri: Bildkonstens människoskildring i en övergångsperiod","authors":"Hans-Olof Boström","doi":"10.1080/00233609808604473","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Summary The Representation of Self and the World in Scandinavian Painting Around 1900 While landscape painting in Scandinavian Realism and Symbolism has been widely discussed, paintings depicting human beings in the decades around the year 1900 have not received the same attention, although the differences in perception of life between the two periods are more clearly revealed in this kind of painting. In order to get a grip of the vast material and investigate the transition from Realist to Symbolist art, several strategies could be followed. One is to look at how man is depicted in relation to the elements, fire, air, water, earth. This study concentrates, to begin with, on how fire is represented during the two periods. In realistic paintings fire is almost always domesticated in the hearth, especially in cast iron fireplaces, i.e. represented as a utility and commodity. In Symbolism the fire is usually a log‐fire, functioning as a catalyst of emotions, of inward, melancholic moods. Another strategy wh...","PeriodicalId":41575,"journal":{"name":"KONSTHISTORISK TIDSKRIFT","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"KONSTHISTORISK TIDSKRIFT","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00233609808604473","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ART","Score":null,"Total":0}
Jaget och världen speglade i förra sekelskiftets nordiska måleri: Bildkonstens människoskildring i en övergångsperiod
Summary The Representation of Self and the World in Scandinavian Painting Around 1900 While landscape painting in Scandinavian Realism and Symbolism has been widely discussed, paintings depicting human beings in the decades around the year 1900 have not received the same attention, although the differences in perception of life between the two periods are more clearly revealed in this kind of painting. In order to get a grip of the vast material and investigate the transition from Realist to Symbolist art, several strategies could be followed. One is to look at how man is depicted in relation to the elements, fire, air, water, earth. This study concentrates, to begin with, on how fire is represented during the two periods. In realistic paintings fire is almost always domesticated in the hearth, especially in cast iron fireplaces, i.e. represented as a utility and commodity. In Symbolism the fire is usually a log‐fire, functioning as a catalyst of emotions, of inward, melancholic moods. Another strategy wh...
期刊介绍:
Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History includes investigations on art, architecture, and visual culture. We welcome articles on works, creators, and specific themes, as well as on theory and historiography. Accepted articles can be thorough explorations of a topic in accordance with a standard academic genre. We also welcome texts in a shorter, less finished format, functioning as openings to discussions.