søndag, februar 03, 2008

Hip, hip, hurra!

I don't go to museums enough anymore. Or do enough to find out about the artists and groups of artists that most intrigue me. For example, P. S. Krøyer. I once had to suffer through an 'easy-reading' book about his erstwhile wife, Marie Krøyer. The book was the suffering part (it was part of studying for one of the many exams one has to go through in order to show that one is learning Danish, and was really quite tedious), but the silver lining was that these people led interesting lives (in the case of Marie, it included a torrid affair; in the case of P. S., well, he was basically insane.) And produced attention-getting art.

The painting above is, of course, Hip, hip, hurra! and is normally housed in Gothenburg. But for now, it's closer to me, in Arken. With many other paintings from the 'Skagen painters'. I'd say come to the Copenhagen area to see it, though maybe not on a Sunday afternoon, as the place was packed (only this part of the museum; the other exhibits were conspicuously empty).

6 kommentarer:

phish sagde ...

i wish i had more time to visit museums. i wish i had more time to stare at paintings and get lost.

Devil Mood sagde ...

I haven't heard of that painter but the painting resembles the impressionists.
I'm not much of a musuem goer, for many reasons, none of them interesting.

Greg Mills sagde ...

I worry for the gents with the beards. Those bushes look lie they'd have spider webs in them.

kimananda sagde ...

Phish, I know what you mean. Staring at paintings is one of life's joys.

Ms. Mood, the Skagen school has both impressionistic and realistic elements, which may be why I like it. And I go in museum-visiting phases.

Greg, I suppose it was the style back then, but I find them a bit alarming as well.

Greg Mills sagde ...

I meant the bushes, as in bushes with leaves, though the bushes with hair are terrifying too. And probably have more spiderwebs than the flora-type bushes.

kimananda sagde ...

Oh, yes, those bushes. I was too busy noticing the scary beards to pay much attention to the actual bushes....