Jean Alphonse Moutte |
Teemu Myntti |
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In the middle of a dark Finnish winter it is joyous to see Tampere Art Museum's exhibition Mediterranean Light. This exhibition is really two exhibitions. On the lower floor are Finnish paintings inspired by the landscapes and people of the South. On the upper floor there are classic paintings from 1800-1900's from the collection of Musée Regards de Provence, Marseille. In Jean Alphose Moutte's landscape three rural workers are resting in the scant shadow of the trees. You can almost hear the sound of grasshoppers and feel the hot and dry air of the heat wave. In André Marchant's large painting of Farandola dans (painted in 1943) the dark purple and green colours are gorgeous, but the feeling is pressing. Even though people are dancing, there is a gloomy expression on their faces, trees have thorny branches and the World War II's atmosphere is
depressed. An exotic moon is shining in Jean Baptiste Olive's painting of Pharo's harbor. The lower floor introduces Finnish paintings, some rarely seen, like Teemu Myntti's colourful painting of a boulevard from Biarritz or Carl Nyman-Wargh's (quite unknown to me) interesting sunny paintings of trees and streets. And then you step out of the museum to the sleet and snow, but you can still feel sun on your face.
André Marchant |
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