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Mats Winther

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I suppose you don't know many Swedish painters, except Zorn(?). Here are some of my photos from a Linnquist exhibition a couple of years ago. (Next time I take photos from an exhibition I will place the camera exactly in front of the picture.) Hilding Linnquist --M. Winther

Michael Robinson

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Thank you. This is also what this site and forum is for. Interesting style.

Peter Davison

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Interesting compositions and style. So it isn't dark round the clock in Sweden?!

Mats Winther

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<div>During part of the year it's light around the clock. Of course, the very special "Nordic light" has been attractive to artists: On the cultural history of Nordic light and lighting /Mats </div>
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Interesting - I like the description "naivist - non dogmatic"....... I think we know far too little - well, I do - about painters outside of a particular canon: so we know about the Dutch school, certainly we're well informed about French painting; but until fairly recent years, there wasn't much information available to the average enthusiast about even German painters, beyond the obvious ones, and certainly not about artists from the Baltic states, or even from Russia. Eventually, we encountered the more controversial Russians, like Kandinsky, Malevich, Chagall; then we gradually got to know about the great Ivan Repin; but painters from Asia, Australasia, Africa? It isn't only painting - in recent years, I've discovered music from Estonia and Latvia, novelists from Egypt, and Bengal - but I had to dig for it. I hate to recommend Facebook, but if you stay there long enough and link up to art groups and enthusiasts, you will discover painters you had never previously heard of - from the Russias, contemporary painters from the USA for example - and a lot of it, by absolutely no means all, will be figurative. Perhaps because figurative painting is said to be out of fashion, such artists remain obscure. Some of them, of course, deserve to remain obscure - but then, tastes differ.....