September 3, 2013 | Posted in:Vellum News

Over eighty 20th century Icelandic portraits, sculptures and drawings from Anthony J. Hardy’s personal collection are on view in The Hong Kong University Museum and Art Gallery this Autumn. The artworks differ from more familiar northern European art or landscape painting of the same period, as they are hybrids of Icelandic mythology and folklore from the Nordic School of Scandinavia’s historic traditions that distinguish this distinctive Icelandic art.

The selected works in the exhibition illustrate Iceland’s culture and community practices, incorporating its intense relationship to rural life and leisure, as well as its conservative political atmosphere. The artworks themselves demonstrate a degree of pictorial realism, a style that developed due to Iceland’s determination to be independent and self-sufficient. This led to the creation of an isolated artistic oeuvre, focused on tradition, perhaps in line with a kind of “island mentality”. www.hkumag.hku.hk

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