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Imagining a New Society
TURUN YLIOPISTON JULKAISUJA ANNALES UNIVERSITATIS TURKUENSIS SARJA - SER. B OSA - TOM. 358 HUMANIORA Johanna Ruohonen IMAGINING A NEW SOCIETY Public Painting as Politics in Postwar Finland TURUN YLIOPISTO UNIVERSITY OF TURKU Turku 2013 From the Department of Art History School of History, Culture and Arts Studies University of Turku FIN-20014 Turku Finland Supervisors Professor Altti Kuusamo University of Turku Dr. Anja Kervanto Nevanlinna, Senior Research Fellow University of Helsinki Pre-examiners Professor Jonathan Harris Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton Dr. Liisa Lindgren University of Helsinki Opponent Dr. Liisa Lindgren University of Helsinki Custos Professor Altti Kuusamo University of Turku Layout: Päivi Valotie On the cover: Tove Jansson, “Electricity”, 1945. Oil on insulate board, 286 x 213 cm. Helsinki Art Museum. Photo: Hanna Riikonen, Helsinki Art Museum. ISBN 978-951-29-5293-9 (PRINT) ISBN 978-951-29-5294-6 (PDF) ISSN 0082-6987 Painosalama Oy – Turku, Finland 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements 7 Preface: Re-visioning the Invisible 9 I PUBLIC PAINTING IN THE SOCIETY AND IN ART HISTORY 1. The Politics of Public Painting Monumental Painting as Public Art 15 Being Public 17 Private Sector Public Painting 23 Public Art and Agency 26 Monumental Memories: Art in Remembering and Forgetting 29 Setting the Framework 32 2. Public Painting in Art History Mural, Monumental, or Public? 36 Between High Art and Decoration 38 National Art in an International Context 41 The Uninteresting Public Painting 47 Building a Tradition (of Ignoring Public Paintings) 49 II FORMULATING NATIONAL ART 3. Picturing Ideologies Nationalism and the Early Finnish Public Painting 57 Realising an Ideology 62 National and Foreign 68 Addressing a Divided Nation 75 On a Lighter Tone 82 National Character for Art 87 “Art for the People” 94 4. -
Nordic Perspectives on Encountering Foreignness
Histories 1 NORDIC PERSPECTIVES ON ENCOUNTERING FOREIGNNESS Edited by Anne Folke Henningsen, Leila Koivunen and Taina Syrjämaa NORDIC PERSPECTIVES ON ENCOUNTERING FOREIGNNESS Edited by Anne Folke Henningsen, Leila Koivunen and Taina Syrjämaa Histories 1 General History University of Turku © 2009 authors Printed by Wasa Graphics Oy, Vaasa Layout: Akseli Salmi English proof reading: Robert Collis Cover image: The Indian Village at Copenhagen Zoo 1901. Archives of the Zoological Garden, Copenhagen. ISBN 978-951-29-4161-2 (print) ISBN 978-951-29-4162-9 (PDF) Histories 1 General History, University of Turku ISSN 1798-6508 Introduction 7 Christina Folke Ax The Stranger You Know: Icelandic Perceptions of Danes in the Twentieth Century 13 Taina Syrjämaa Making Difference, Seeking Sameness Negotiating Finnishness and Foreignness in an Exhibition 27 Leila Koivunen Exemplary Foreignness Foreign Material Cultures in the Service of Finnish Taste and Industry in the 1870s 41 Anne Folke Henningsen Producing and Consuming Foreignness “Anthropological-Zoological Exhibitions” in Copenhagen 55 Dag Hundstad Foreign or Homegrown? The Creation of Coastal Leisure Culture in the South of Norway 71 Laura Boxberg At the Crossroads of Finnishness and Foreignness Finnish Participation in the Venice Biennale in 1954 and 1956 89 Íris Ellenberger Somewhere Between “Self” and “Other” Colonialism in Icelandic Historical Research 99 List of Authors 115 conception, the idea of attachment to that which is Introduction abroad. We see foreignness as a subcategory of the more generic and widely used concept of otherness. Our approach is in many ways based on earlier stud- ies on otherness; yet as a more restricted concept “foreignness” can help to explore cultural processes from a new angle. -
'I Could Give up Everything to Live Only for Painting'1 – Eva Cederström's
Issue No. 1/2019 ‘I could give up everything to live only for painting’1 – Eva Cederström’s Career and Artist Identity 1927–39 Sandra Lindblom, MA student, University of Helsinki This article is published as a result of a three-month research internship at the Finnish National Gallery Introduction And now, comes praise for the female painters! I’ll be damned if we men also in this regard are beaten by the fairer sex! [...] Eva Cederström’s paintings in the southern hall sing out high. No. 39, June Morning in the Atelier, is a piece of true painting. She is no nervous man, Eva. She is not weighed down by complexes, she paints straight from the heart. The result is fresh, powerful and beautiful paintings.2 It was in this manner that the art critic Hjalmar Hagelstam (1899–1941) praised the work that Eva Cederström (1909–95) had brought to the ‘Finnish Artists’ Exhibition’ in Helsinki Kunsthalle in the spring of 1939. Instead of simply giving recognition to Cederström’s work, he constantly refers to her gender and the competition between the sexes in the art field. In general, the 1930s texts on art have a tendency to emphasise the gender of female artists.3 Gender affected the expectations placed on artists, and there were certain prejudices among 1 ‘Voisin antaa kaikki saadakseni yksin maalaukselle elää.’ Eva Cederström’s diary 29 March 1938. Eva Cederström Archive (ECA). Archive Collections, Finnish National Gallery (FNG), Helsinki. 2 ‘Och nu, på ny kula fram för en hyllning av målarinnorna! är det inte som tusan, att vi karlar också i denna sak få på tafsen av det täcka könet! [...] [H]ögt smälla nu Eva Cederströms målningar i södra salen. -
Turku on Fire
”All of the participants of this project affect the contents and the events of Turku 2011. Symbolically this happens through contact – touching creates personal illustrations. Everyone handling this application illustrates the covers of the book differently: what happens to the covers of the book comes from me, I can have and impact on what Turku will be like as the Capital of Culture in 2011.” Ilmo Valtonen, the designer of the layout of the book Turku on Fire The Application of the City of Turku for the European Capital of Culture 2011 www.turku2011.fi Turku Established in 1229, the oldest city and former capital of Finland 175 000 inhabitants, the centre of the 3rd largest urban region in the country A bilingual city (Finnish, Swedish) with 113 different nationalities Altogether 35 000 students at three universities and four polytechnics History of over 30 urban fires, The Great Fire in 1827 Nationally significant medieval landmarks include the Turku Castle and the Turku Cathedral The River Aura running through the city The Turku Archipelago consists of 20 000 islands with 20 000 inhabitants Turku The highest temperature in 2005 +30°C, the lowest -22°C Tallinn The city in which the world’s largest passenger cruisers are created The host of the oldest open-air rock festival in Europe, Ruisrock The candidate for the European Capital of Culture 2011 together with Tallinn, Estonia Editors: Niina Helander, Suvi Innilä, Mari Jokinen, Jukka Talve Revision of the Finnish text: Joni Pyysalo Translation and editing: Laura Kopu Main photographies and photo collages: Heli Konttinen, Harri Pälviranta, Markku Lappalainen. -
FNG Research 2/2021
Issue No. 2/2021 Contents MARJA SAKARI Editorial: Past, Present and Future JULIET SIMPSON AND ANNA- MARIA VON BONSDORFF Gothic Modern KRISTA KODRES Writing the Gothic: Defining the Character of Medieval Heritage in Estonia from the late 19th Century to the 1930s TIMO HUUSKO The Artist, his Admirers, his Dealers and Inheritors – Ilya Repin and his Career in the Republic of Finland HELENA HÄTÖNEN Sources for Ilya Repin Researchers in the Archive Collections of the Finnish National Gallery KIRSI ESKELINEN A Renaissance Masterpiece in the Sinebrychoff Art Museum Ilya Repin, Double Portrait of Natalia Nordmann and Ilya Repin, 1903, – Virgin and Child with John oil on canvas, 78.5cm x 130cm the Baptist and St Anthony the Finnish National Gallery / Ateneum Art Museum Abbot, by Jacopo Bassano Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Jenny Nurminen GILL CRABBE Magnus Enckell – Decoding an Enigma ANU UTRIAINEN AND HANNE SELKOKARI Finnish Landscapes on Tour Editorial: Past, Present and Future EMMI HALMESVIRTA ‘I always return equally humbly to the same: To give form, alright, but to what?’ – Juhana Blomstedt’s Art and Marja Sakari, PhD, Museum Director, Finnish National Gallery / Ateneum Thought 1970–80 Art Museum ANNE-MARIA PENNONEN A New Research Project: ‘Pioneering Women Artists in the 19th Century’ 31 May 2021 This edition of FNG Research is looking to the past, present and future. The future is opened up in two major research projects – ‘Gothic Modern’ and ‘Pioneering women artists’. The two initiators of the Gothic Modern project, Chief Curator, Dr Anna-Maria von Bonsdorff, from the Ateneum Art Museum and Dr Juliet Simpson, Professor of Art History at Coventry University, are spearheading an international endeavour to rethink the development of a specifically Nordic Modernism at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century, having its inspiration in the northern Gothic and Renaissance.