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Cloud Paintings in National Museum in Oslo?

Cloud Paintings in National Museum in Oslo?

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    • August 20, 2017 at 8:18 pm #226672
      Emily Klenin avatarEmily Klenin
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      One of my favorite memories of museum-going anywhere is some small paintings of skies, I think mostly done as studies, in a narrow exhibition room in the National Museum in Oslo. The paintings I believe were all by Norwegian artists. The same room had paintings of arctic snow. I have been on the museum’s Website and found other wonderful  cloud paintings, but not the studies I remember.  Does anyone have images that might fit my memory? I cannot get back to Oslo anytime soon and long for these images, with which I spent happy hours in the 1990s. Thank you.

    • August 21, 2017 at 11:10 pm #226859
      Howard Brown avatarHoward Brown
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      That’s a very specific question you have, Emily, but it would be great if you found the answer. I am intrigued so I hope you will let us know here if you find out elsewhere.

      Meanwhile, I enjoyed this program which found a new Constable with great clouds.

      http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41000338

    • November 11, 2017 at 11:40 pm #239975
      Howard Brown avatarHoward Brown
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      Akseli Gallen-Kallela – National Gallery, London to 4FEB2018 (I don’t know how many cloud paintings are on show, The Times says there are four of the lake ‘alongside other atmospheric works’).

      Lake Keitele: A Vision of Finland

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akseli_Gallen-Kallela#/media/File:Akseli_Gallen-Kallela_-_Pilvi_tornit_(1904).jpg

      In the link, scroll down to ‘4  Gallery’ to find ‘Sky, 1904, oil’ (which The Times implies is Lake Keitele).

    • November 13, 2017 at 11:19 pm #240271
      Howard Brown avatarHoward Brown
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      Prince Eugen – The Cloud

      http://archive.artsmia.org/mirror-of-nature/nordic-art-detail.cfm?nor_art_cat=82&lng=0.html

    • November 14, 2017 at 12:21 am #240281
      Emily Klenin avatarEmily Klenin
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      Thank you for this wonderful post! It brought the whole exhibition to my attention for the first time; it’s a splendid site. Thank you!

    • November 14, 2017 at 7:48 pm #240393
      Nigel Okey avatarNigel Okey
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      Hi Emily,

      I was in Oslo and Bergen last year.  I don’t recall any cloud photos in the National Gallery in Oslo, but there were some that stuck in my mind in one of the Kode galleries in Bergen (Kode 2, I think), by Johann Christian Dahl, and they fit your description perfectly – small pictures, narrow space.  However, just the one artist.

      They struck me as being very like the many sky studies by the English artist John Constable (some of which I saw in a small gallery in Woking about 18 months ago).

      I shall find my photos from Bergen and post one or two here, but they are not very good because the lighting was poor.  You might need to be patient…

      Regards,

      Doctor_NO.

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