DOI issue:
No. 205 (April, 1910)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20969#0268
Studio- Talk
“A SWEDISH LANDSCAPE” BY GOTTFRID KALLSTENIDS
strength. He is, together with Liljefors and Karl
Nordstrom, the most prominent painter of the
Swedish coast; but the kind of landscape that he
prefers to paint has not the severe beauty and
grandeur of the pictures of rocks and sea, without
a green spot, which both the just mentioned great
masters have created. Kallstenius has chosen his
motives in a part of Sweden where the coast is not
so barren as in Bohnslan or the outer archipelago
of Stockholm, the favourite places of Nordstrom
and Liljefors. He likes to paint the strong and
beautiful effect of the dark green firs and pine trees
standing out against the deep blue sea. Also as a
painter of snow Kallstenius is one of the very best
in Sweden at the present day. His Thunder Cloud,
reproduced opposite, is something new in his pro-
duction, and gives an impressive moment in the
life of nature. His manly and somewhat austere
art is always winning new admirers. T. L.
TORONTO.—It has been said that the art
of a nation must always develop along
lines parallel with its customs, culture-
and ideals. Canada is a young country
and a long way from possessing a national school
of art, but it is exceedingly interesting and instruc-
tive to study the character of (so to speak) the-
mother of that school, as we may see it in such
exhibitions as that of the Canadian Art Club; to-
watch the gradual strengthening of the parent
thought by the reception of those impressions
from nature which will one day form that offspring,
so indispensable to the regeneration and refine-
ment of the world in which it lives and moves..
The club is a young organisation, but it has already
done much for the furtherance of art in Canada.
It has enrolled within ' its ranks men who have-
achieved greatness abroad, and has been the means,
of their work being shown to their countrymen, in
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“A SWEDISH LANDSCAPE” BY GOTTFRID KALLSTENIDS
strength. He is, together with Liljefors and Karl
Nordstrom, the most prominent painter of the
Swedish coast; but the kind of landscape that he
prefers to paint has not the severe beauty and
grandeur of the pictures of rocks and sea, without
a green spot, which both the just mentioned great
masters have created. Kallstenius has chosen his
motives in a part of Sweden where the coast is not
so barren as in Bohnslan or the outer archipelago
of Stockholm, the favourite places of Nordstrom
and Liljefors. He likes to paint the strong and
beautiful effect of the dark green firs and pine trees
standing out against the deep blue sea. Also as a
painter of snow Kallstenius is one of the very best
in Sweden at the present day. His Thunder Cloud,
reproduced opposite, is something new in his pro-
duction, and gives an impressive moment in the
life of nature. His manly and somewhat austere
art is always winning new admirers. T. L.
TORONTO.—It has been said that the art
of a nation must always develop along
lines parallel with its customs, culture-
and ideals. Canada is a young country
and a long way from possessing a national school
of art, but it is exceedingly interesting and instruc-
tive to study the character of (so to speak) the-
mother of that school, as we may see it in such
exhibitions as that of the Canadian Art Club; to-
watch the gradual strengthening of the parent
thought by the reception of those impressions
from nature which will one day form that offspring,
so indispensable to the regeneration and refine-
ment of the world in which it lives and moves..
The club is a young organisation, but it has already
done much for the furtherance of art in Canada.
It has enrolled within ' its ranks men who have-
achieved greatness abroad, and has been the means,
of their work being shown to their countrymen, in
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