Finland´s Gallup Foundation has 600 naïve works of art in it´s collection, and 200 of these are in the exhibition "Longing for the Summer. A Journey into Naivism" in Tampere Art Museum. The paintings have been acquired mainly in the 1980`s and 1990`s. Finnish works are in the upper floor and this collection looks quite familiar after "Naïve Artists in Iittala"-summer exhibitions.
Martti Innanen (b. 1931) on luonnollisesti näyttelyn kuningas. Naivistinen huumori ja teoksien hassut nimet saavat hymyn huulille. Minua viehättävät nämä Innasen pelästyneet kissat, tässä "Pispalan pelimannissa". Näyttelyssä samanlainen kissa on teoksessa "Odessan kirnumuseon intendentti".
Martti Innanen (b. 1931) is naturally the king of this exhibition. Naïve humour and the funny names of the paintings make you smile. I really like Innanen´s scared cats like here in "Fiddler from Pispala". In the exhibition there is a similar cat in "The Curator of the Churn Museum of Odessa".
Kunniapaikalla on Heli Tuhkasen (s. 1950) upea ja hiukan apea kaupunkimaisema, ja ihan aiheellisesti. Isoa taulua voisi katsella vaikka kuinka kauan ja aina löytää uusia yksityiskohtia. Tässä kuvassa Tuhkanen lepää ateljeessaan yhden vastaavan taulun vieressä.
Heli Tuhkanen´s (b. 1950) gorgeous and a little wistful urban landscape is in the place of honor, and quite rightly. You can watch this big painting for a long time and always find new details. In this picture Tuhkanen lies in her studio beneath a similar painting.
Alakerroksessa on kokoelma ulkomaisia töitä, suurimmaksi osaksi Venäjältä. Täällä voi kohdata ihan uusia tuttavuuksia. Ihastuin erityisesti liettualaisen Elena Kniustaitén (s. 1950) satumaisiin maalauksiin, joissa taivas oli dramaattisen värinen.
On the ground floor there are the foreign art works, mainly from Russia. Here you can encounter new acquaintances. Elena Kniustaité´s (b. 1950) fabulous paintings with dramatic skies fascinated me.
Beryl Cook: Union Street, Blymouth |
It was a bit surprising to see in this collection a couple of British Beryl Cook´s (1926-2008) works. The plump, merry women are here climbing to a taxi in their skimpy dresses surely in a freezing wind. I have started somehow to react with caution to similar serigraphies, which are made in great quantities by only transferring the original work.
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