Kategori: artikel
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Konstnärsförbundets förnyelse av måleriet med influenser från Delacroix
Gunilla Derefeldt Abstract The Swedish Artists´ Association was formed in 1886. As artistic director of the Artists’ Association’s schools from 1890 to 1908, the artist Richard Bergh set the tone for the renewal of Swedish art. He introduced studies on light, reflections, and simultaneous and complementary colour contrast, studied by M.E Chevreul and applied by…
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Smålands nations inspektorsporträtt – En undersökning av samlingens tillstånd och funktion
Tove Kronberg Abstract This article, based on my previous bachelors thesis in cultural preservation, examines how Småland’s student nation in Uppsala uses and conveys its collection of inspector portraits.The collection consists of 24 paintings with matching motifs. The portraits are examined based on both their immaterial and physical values from a cultural conservation-perspective, which has…
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Roman Bikini-girls : Female Representation and Identity in Mosaics during Late Antiquity
Silvia Lucantonio The representation of women in ancient Roman art has recently become a popular subject of scholarly interest, particularly concerning themes of identity, social status, and standards of beauty. One particularly compelling example is the mosaic from the Sala delle Palestrite at Villa Romana del Casale in Piazza Armerina, Sicily. This mosaic, often referred…
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Blomstrande band – moderligt ansvar i 1800-talets trädgårdar
Isa Ulvebring Abstract This article is based on a Bachelor’s thesis, but has been revised to focus primarily on the theme of motherhood. The following article examines how motherhood and the role of women are portrayed in 19th-century Nordic art through the gendered spatiality of garden motifs. Through an analysis of works by artists such…
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Med Caravaggio i Rom
Jan Skansholm Abstract In this article I describe my impressions after seeing a number of Caravaggio’s paintings on location in Rome. Using Wolfgang Kemp’s reception aesthetic theories and methods, I identify factors that make Caravaggio’s paintings so vivid and fascinating. The starting point for the analysis is the painting Judit beheading Holofernes. The analysis of…
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Floragatan 13 – Långtråkighet och arkitektur
Betongbrutalistisk byggnad i stadsrummet Vanessa Sahlman DEDIKATIONTill läsaren av denna essä Tiden är upptryckt i byggnadens fasad, en klocka är ingjuteti nedre delen av tegelväggeni form av en tegelstenistället för en tegelsten En klocka med digitala siffrorTiden 13.13 ger tillfredsställelseEtt samlande på bra sifferkombinationer Tittar ofta på klockan,även när det inte är långtråkigt Byggnaden ritades,när ett…
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Cennino Cenninis diadem – En ledtråd i en brytningstid
Kristina af Klinteberg Abstract In the early-15th-century book Il libro dell’arte by Cennino Cennini, the author uses the word diadema about twelve times. The most recent Swedish edition interprets this word not as an object but as a halo, a divine light. Both would be represented in gold in paintings at this time in history.…
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Ett franskt sinnelag – Sveriges förlust av Greta Knutson
Emily Jacoby Kask Greta Knutson (Tzara), born in 1899, was a Swedish modernist artist and sculptor but also an active poet, writer, and translator. At the age of nineteen, she studied at Carl Wilhelmson’s art school and later spent a year at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. In 1920, she moved to…
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Upplevelser av konstens rum och plats i virtuell verklighet
Diana Berntsdotter Vallgren Abstract This article is based on a master thesis where the experience of virtual reality artworks and the application Acute Art X, was examined. By using a phenomenological method, six artworks were subject for the thesis, as the artwork on display in the application at time of the study. The artworks came…