Finnish art
Middle Ages
Early history
- Finnish culture wasn't as high as cultures in Central Europe.
- Architecture is the most important art of this time.
- In stone age Finnish people made rock paintings and stone sculptures
Holy Cross Church, Hattula
Turku Cathedral
Sculptures often portrayed elks and bears
A woman figure with a bow
built in the 14th century
built in the 13th century
- In bronze age people used bronze to make jewelry and weapons
- They also made glass paintings, woodcarvings and handcraft for churces
- From iron age there are many preserved* metal jewels and vessels, decorated weapons and wooden items.
*Säilynyt
Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931)
the 19th century
- Finland was under the Russian rule.
- That was the time of Classicism. So buildings were made in this style.
"Ad Astra"
"Poika ja varis"
"Boy with a crow"
"Maalaiselämää"
"Countryliving"
"Tulipalon katselijat Pitkänsillan rannassa"
"People viewing the fire by Pitkäsilta bridge"
the Senate of Finland, designed by Carl Ludvig Engel
Kalevala
Finnish national epic
- Painting started to have more valuation when Finnish art association was established in 1846.
- Now you could study painting in Finland.
- Finnish art's golden age began.
"Kullervon kirous"
"Kullervo's curse"
"Sammon puolustus"
"The Defense of the Sampo"
"Lemminkäisen äiti"
"Lemminkäinen's mother"
Albert Edelfelt (1854-1905)
Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946)
"Leikkiviä poikia rannalla"
"Boys playing on the beach"
"Kuningatar Blanka"
"Queen Blanka"
"Ruokolahden eukkoja kirkonmäellä"
"Old women from Ruokolahti on the hill at the church"
"Tanssikengät"
"Dance shoes"
Hugo Simberg (1873-1917)
Modernism
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2.
1. "Haavoittunut enkeli"
"The Wounded Angel"
2. "Kuoleman puutarha"
"The Garden of Death"
Markus Heikkerö
"Pegasuksen salaliitto"
"Consipiracy of pegasus"
Nanna Susi
"Hyvä ihminen"
"Good person"
- Modernism isn't a solid art style
- In modern art new is beautiful
"Queen Noémi"
"Laura's mother"
- In 1998 opened modern arts museum Kiasma has raised the visibility of modern art in Finland
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