August Strindberg — Seascape | Swedish Expressionist Print

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August Strindberg — Seascape | Swedish Expressionist PrintAugust Strindberg (18491912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, and polymath who was also, in the intervals between writing, a serious and original visual artist. His paintings stormy seascapes, moody forests, dark urban landscapes were produced during periods of psychological crisis and have the raw, unpolished energy of a non academic artist working directly from inner necessity. Now held in the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, his paintings are

" Rothko said

Illuminated frontispieces

and interior scenes — marked by brilliant colour and broken brushwork — remain the defining achievements of American Impressionism

Breaking with the decorative complexity of Art Nouveau

and moonlit ponds brought an entirely contemporary Japanese sensibility to the woodblock tradition

His Kannon Bosatsu and dragon paintings remain defining works of Meiji visual culture

Collected today as a fine example of vintage European advertising design at its most direct

distributing them through American embassies and cultural centres worldwide

This vintage advertisement — bold blue and yellow typography against a clean ground — reflects the confident graphic design of mid-century Dutch commercial printing

and mythological compositions

show-jumping

Now held in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

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