DOI issue:
No. 132 ( March, 1904)
DOI article:Tallberg, Axel: Modern painting in Sweden
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19881#0117
Modern Painting in Sweden
been violent struggles,
and the result of the
contest is the great variety
of individual achieve-
ments, of original ideas,
of ardent observation
and powerful rendering,
which, together with
a strongly pronounced
personalism, form the
fresh and unrestrained art
of the new era.
If the veteran members
of the Royal Swedish
Academy of Art had in
the early eighties differed
from their foreign col-
leagues Swedish art
would not have been a
constant field of battle
during the last twenty
"portrait of the composer w. stenhammer" by robert th egerstrom years The veterans might
then have kept their old
glory untarnished, together
by, have been tenderly supported and made con- with their peace and happiness; and the artists
spicuous, while the stubborn strugglers for new of the younger generations might have gained
ideas and new views have had to do the best they theirs in the old way, by accepting Royal
could, more often than not, without any sup- and Academic honours, grants, appointments,
port at all. In this melancholy fact we find the and pensions. So far everything would, no doubt,
truth of another ancient proverb : " There is have made for quiet, but there would certainly
nothing so bad that no good will come from it." have been no advance in art; at least, not any-
Opposition has met opposition. There have thing like the progress that has been made
" off duty
too
by harriet sundstrom
been violent struggles,
and the result of the
contest is the great variety
of individual achieve-
ments, of original ideas,
of ardent observation
and powerful rendering,
which, together with
a strongly pronounced
personalism, form the
fresh and unrestrained art
of the new era.
If the veteran members
of the Royal Swedish
Academy of Art had in
the early eighties differed
from their foreign col-
leagues Swedish art
would not have been a
constant field of battle
during the last twenty
"portrait of the composer w. stenhammer" by robert th egerstrom years The veterans might
then have kept their old
glory untarnished, together
by, have been tenderly supported and made con- with their peace and happiness; and the artists
spicuous, while the stubborn strugglers for new of the younger generations might have gained
ideas and new views have had to do the best they theirs in the old way, by accepting Royal
could, more often than not, without any sup- and Academic honours, grants, appointments,
port at all. In this melancholy fact we find the and pensions. So far everything would, no doubt,
truth of another ancient proverb : " There is have made for quiet, but there would certainly
nothing so bad that no good will come from it." have been no advance in art; at least, not any-
Opposition has met opposition. There have thing like the progress that has been made
" off duty
too
by harriet sundstrom