Anders Zorn: 100 Figure Drawings and Paintings PDF Download

Author: Raya Yotova
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ISBN: 9781718987753
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Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Anders Leonard Zorn (1860 -1920) was Sweden's artist who obtained international success as a painter, sculptor and printmaker in etching. From 1875-1880 Zorn studied at Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm, Sweden. He traveled extensively to London, Paris, the Balkans, Spain, Italy and the United States, becoming an international success as one of the most acclaimed painters of his era. While his early works were often brilliant, luminous watercolors, by 1887 he had switched firmly to oils. Towards the turn of the century, Zorn became increasingly interested in the history and ancient traditions of his native village of Mora and its wider cultural territories, which at the time, as a result of industrialisation and urbanisation, were beginning to disappear. In 1905 he bought an ancient cabin, which he moved to Gopsmor, a parish north-west of Mora. The simple, ritualistic way of life of the local people, with whom he felt a deep affinity, and the geographical isolation of Gopsmor, became for him a refuge. The serene yet wild character of the surrounding landscape provided Zorn with the backdrop to many of his depictions of nudes, enabling him to explore his ideas of showing them in a natural environment, in spontaneous action, rather than approaching the subject in the studio, painting contrived poses. In the 1906-09 series especially, he placed his young models deep in the forest amongst saplings by a tarn or brook. Beginning in 1910, Zorn focused on developing his control of the technique and motif. He accomplished this with such certainty that the process of painting can assume the dominant role, sometimes to the detriment of the work's emotional expression.