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Northern Light Art Gallery
Beyond Trends and Time,
Art
of Enduring Value
About the Art
Post Representative paintings & Modernist works
"Art of Enduring Value - Sensibly Priced"
Northern Light Art specializes in "Post Representative" paintings, ca 1890 - 1920.. ("Post Representative" is a term that features the colors and light of the French Palette applied to Representative or Traditional motifs.)
We also show "Modernist" pieces, primarily from the 1940s. This style strove to reduce the motifs to their elemental forms or shapes, eliminating as much ornamentation as possible,
Whether Post Representative of Modernist, our pieces strive for universal themes and timeless motifs. The artists are listed in Lexicons and Biographies, most are represented in museums.
Many of our pieces come from Denmark. That's because after these artists graduated from the Royal Academy of Art, they were among the first to travel to France in the 1880s and 1890s and study Impressionism. They often spent a year in the countryside, through the changing light of the four seasons. In this way, they learned the new "French Palette with its emphasis on color, light and shadow, along with shape over detail. They also adopted the Impressionist's choice of subject matter; "everyday" scenes, ordinary people, hard work, and other motifs that were foreign to the old Academic School.
After their year in France, they returned to Denmark where they married the French Palette with traditional representative painting, taking into account the different sunlight in Scandinavia. They called it "The Nature, Light, and Mood School" of Art. We call it "Post Representative."
Danish artists were also among the first to adopt the Modernist style, some as early as 1915. No surprise that Scandinavian Modern, which included furniture, lighting, sculpture, and other facets of modern living, originated in Denmark.
After acquiring paintings at auction, we clean and restore them as needed, along with repairing or replacing the frames.
As the American painter, Robert Henri said, "That which is worthwhile in landscape painting is the expression of human emotion in it."
Biographies
Most artists are "listed." Biographies list their training and eduction, exhibitions, awards, studies abroad, museum collections and other fascinating information. We source this information through the State Museum for Artists in Copenhagen, who sponsor www.kid.dk, the online access to Weilbachs Artist Lexicon (9 volumes, 8,550 pages). Sample Biography
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