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Sharing artowrks from the Tate. Not associated with the museum.
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Church-Goers in a Boat, Carl Wilhelmson, 1909, Nationalmuseum, SWE

Carl Wilhelmson found most of his subjects in his native Bohuslän. His brightly lit scenes portray the province’s austere, rocky landscape and hard-working fishing communities with gravity and dignity. This painting shows rowing boats putting out from outside the church in Fiskebäckskil to take churchgoers back home after the Sunday service. The special painting technique and bright, luminous palette reflect influences from Wilhelmson’s time in France and artists such as Paul Gauguin.

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Flowers on the Windowsill. From A Home (26 watercolours), Carl Larsson, Nationalmuseum, SWE

This is one of Larsson’s most famous watercolours from Lilla Hyttnäs. The interior illustrates several of the ideals Ellen Key presented in Beauty for All. Daylight pours in and through the open window the room is filled with fresh air. The 19th-century heavy curtains with tassels, fringes and dust-gathering drapes are conspicuously absent here. On the windowsill are plants in plain clay pots. There are no brightly-painted flowerpots decorated with raised floral or animal motifs. The ideal object, according to Key, simply serves its purpose. Pots are for flowers, and the best adornment for a windowsill was natural, green plants – not richly-decorated flowerpots. Carl Larsson’s A Home stated clearly that “artificial flowers with ribbons, dust and microbes” were not desirable.

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