His book Naturlära was honored with the August Prize 2014, and in 2016 Lars Lerin was honored the Royal medal Litteris et Artibus for his great achievements as an artist and author. Sandgrund was honored the Tourism Award 2016. . He received his artistic training at Valand Academy in Gothenburg. A sense of claustrophobia and isolation recurs in the dilapidated suburbs of European cities, but also in the watercolours of stuffed animals in the Gothenburg Natural History Museum. The time for the interview was settled and when we came to the museum Lars was there. Water is the source of everything.
I did not know when we went to the exhibition at our local art museum whether it would be allowed to take photographs, but it turned out it was. In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - one of the Chronicles of Narnia by C. Huge snowflakes drift toward distant farm sheds barely visible through fog and mist in a wintry birch forest. He knows everything there is to know about the temper and movement of this media, along with its strengths and weaknesses. See more ideas about Lars lerin, Artist and Watercolor art.
Henningsvaer, Watercolour on paper, x 97 cm. Я всегда хотела уметь рисовать, но мне казалось, что сейчас уже поздно учиться. Recently, he has begun taking a greater interest in the man-made world. The rugged landscape of Lofoten or the ruins of Syria, a pillar-like birch forest or lines of files on archive shelves — Lerin reincarnates powerful visual impressions via his inimitable technique. Oil on canvas, 220 x 109. Lerin, who lives a very interesting and sometimes tumultuous life outside his art a documentary in Swedish has been made , put us in awe with his large scale formats. An audio guide is also available.
. Sweden sunlit house in the winter landscape watercolour. Another source of inspiration for Lars has been old photo albums. His book Naturlära was honored with the August Prize 2014, and in 2016 Lars Lerin was honored the Royal medal Litteris et Artibus for his great achievements as an artist and author. Do you consider yourselves a part of the Global watercolor community? Currently he lives in Hammarö, outside Karlstad. Also how un usual to think of something like that.
My friend who was holding the camera was. There is no life without water. The lovely downstairs breakfast room holds a special treat — a half-dozen Lerin portraits of traditional Swedish chairs. Can you appreciate an art style different from yours? Oil on canvas, 220 x 109. His new works show the backdrops to our everyday lives. Notice the little red markings on some of the books? This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund, and a grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation Minnesota. Below is a collage of four paintings of silvery objects.
Lerin, who lives a very interesting and sometimes tumultuous life outside his art a documentary in Swedish has been made , put us in awe with his large scale formats. The importance and greatness of his art will be supremely evident to all and sundry, were it not so already. Besides his art and writing, Lerin, 61, has earned respect for the candor with which he has addressed troubling personal issues, Nordal said. People are rarely present, though their artifice is everywhere: in huge container ships in blue-black voids on restless seas, in buildings whose vaulted corridors and ornate salons dissolve into watery miasmas, in featureless modern apartment buildings shimmering in opalescent light. They indicate that they belong to a public library. On Thursday, I visited an art exhibition by one of Scandinavia's leading artists in watercolour technique,.
He has also travelled to the Artic and Antartic, Siberia, Scotland, India, Egypt and Iran; which is reflected in some of his paintings. Last week I had an opportunity to ask my questions to Lars personally. . Near and far, nature and culture, brought together in one place. Browse upcoming and past auction lots by Lars Lerin. Oil on canvas, 220 x 109. We feel that we know him; his openness gives voice to our own shyness.
He has a feeling for the grandeur of natural scenery and sympathy for the tough conditions under which people work there. If you don't want to wait, you can also take a peek at the at Lars Lerin's own web page. Through unconventional materials, new forms of expression and a pronounced political commitment, she broke in the 1960s with the established art scene and was active in founding of the women's gallery A. See more ideas about Lars lerin, Artist and Watercolor art. He studied at the art school of Gerlesborg 1974-75, and at the Department of Fine Arts, Valand 1980-84. Actually I was anxious to see his painting close-up but first it happened that I started asking my questions. Paired with period chairs from the mansion itself, the intimate little pictures are sly, witty and insightful meditations on Swedish life and soul.
He has had solo exhibitions and group exhibitions in art museums and galleries in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, France, the Faeroe Islands, Iceland, Germany, Norway and the United States. Lewis - The Island of the Voices is the place where Lucy finds the Magician's Book, with a spell to make hidden things visible. Lars Lerin is also a prolific author and has since his debute Utpost 1983 , written and released more than fifty books. And yet when you try to figure out the titles, you find most of them illegible! See more ideas about Lars lerin, Artist and Watercolor art. Lars Lerin was born in 1954 in Munkfors, Värmland where he grew up. Lars Lerin has also begun to reinterpret works by other artists and paint stills from films that have moved him, reproducing key scenes from classics by both Alfred Hitchcock and Werner Herzog. This is about feeling lost and alienated, about having gradually become more of an onlooker than a participator in the course of life.
He studied at Gerlesborgsskolan in Stockholm in 1974-75 and at the Valand Academy in Gothenburg in 1980-84. He has had solo and group exhibitions in art museums and galleries in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, France, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Germany, Norway and the United States. Free entry for all on Mondays. In this solo exhibition of contemporary Swedish watercolor master Lars Lerin b. We were next-entrance-neighbours for 22 years until 2 years ago.