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Joseph Alanen (1885-1920) has been mentioned as a unknown master. He died in the middle of a very active creative period of Spanish flu, H1N1 pandemic disease, which of course evokes shakes in there times of the Corona virus. Still, there are a lot of Kalevala themed works by Alanen. They have usually painted on a very rough, patterned canvas, and the patterns of Finnish folk art are repeating, branches of trees, triangles and lines. At the exhibition at Tampere Art Museum there is also a large triptych "Klaus Kurki and the death of Elina", which I saw quite often when working in Metso library where is hung on the wall of the large lecture room. The simplified Jugend style is at its peak in this painting. In other than Kalevala themed works you can sense influences even from van Gogh, meandering clouds and similar brush work, for example in the painting " Distillation". There were surprisingly many linocuts at the exhibition, a series of Finnish masters, i.e. Sibelius and subjects from Kalevala of course. "The Son of Marjatta is Chastening Väinämöinen" was just charming. The style of linocuts was beautiful, clean and clear. Downstairs at the museum there were Anna Alapuro´s (b. 1953) graphic works (carborundum and serigraphy), and they felt quite bare and stripped after Alanen.
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