Mamma Andersson: The Lost Paradise
Mamma Andersson: The Lost Paradise This volume celebrates the Swedish artist Mamma Andersson's new body of work--melancholic, evocatively colored paintings that explore femininity, fantasy, and…
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Mamma Andersson: The Lost Paradise
This volume celebrates the Swedish artist Mamma Andersson's new body of work--melancholic, evocatively colored paintings that explore femininity, fantasy, and memory.Andersson's works embody a new genre of landscape painting that recalls late nineteenth-century romanticism while also embracing a contemporary interest in layered, psychological compositions. The paintings utilize a selection of motifs from throughout her career: barren branches and thick-barked pine trees, domestic interiors, horses, and young women. Her panoramic scenes draw inspiration from a wide range of archival photographic source materials, filmic imagery, theater sets, and period interiors as well as the sparse topography of northern Sweden, where she grew up.
Resembling still lifes, they further a tradition of quiet, dreamlike domestic scenes by Scandinavian artists such as Vilhelm Hammersh i