Leena Luostarinen |
I spent a day in two art museums in Helsinki. Leena Luostarinen´s paintings were in Taidehalli, Marjatta Tapiola´s paintings and a collection of art about folk stories from Tretjakov´s gallery in Tennispalatsi.
Leena Luostarinen |
Leena Luostarinen´s (b. 1949) exhibition was a thrill. The paintings were really big and full of strong and intensive colours, usually very dark. The most important aspect in the paintings seemed to be the feeling, which was created with glowing colours bases and large colour surfaces. It was a side issue what the paintings really depicted: flowers, trees, stones and people. The paintings of tigers and reptiles was a group of their own, the colours of the animals and the background created the fine feelings together. A woman can really be strong!
Marjatta Tapiola |
Marjatta Tapiola (b. 1951), another strong woman painter introduced herself in an exhibition in Helsinki Art Museum Tennispalatsi. She was really the opposite of Luostarinen. Even though the paintings were big, the subjects or figures were done with sparse lines and colours like sketchily and airily. The horses and skulls of horses were the most powerful.
Vasili Kandinski |
An exhibition of art relating to folklore from the period 1870-1930 was on a lone from Tretyakov Gallery: Firebird and Snow Maiden - Fabulous Works of Art. How familiar in also in Finnish folklore were the subjects: kantele players, snow, forest, mushrooms and falling leaves. There were a lot of book illustrations and theatre set designs. The amount of details was sometimes quite staggering.
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