Forests in Finnish art

Reitala, Aimo

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Silva Fennica vol. 21 no. 4 article id 5334 | 1987 | Article

Aimo Reitala

Metsä suomalaisessa kuvataiteessa.

Reitala A. (1987). Metsä suomalaisessa kuvataiteessa. Silva Fennica vol. 21 no. 4 article id 5334. https://doi.org/10.14214/sf.a15491

English title: Forests in Finnish art

Abstract

The Finnish forest was elevated into an appreciated artistic motif by Werner Holmberg with his picture ”The Finnish conifer forest” in 1858. The second significant period was during national romanticism in the 1980’s, when the decorative beauty of the winter forests was discovered. At the turn of the century, the forest obtained a central national symbolic significance, and many leading artists regarded increased cuttings as a rape of the forests. Since that period, individual artists have succeeded in bringing new features in the art history of our forests.

The paper is based on a lecture given in the seminar ‘The forest as a Finnish cultural entity’, held in Helsinki in 1986. The PDF includes a summary in English.

Original keywords
maisema; metsä; kuvataide; kansallisromantiikka

English keywords
forest; landscape; identity; art; realism; national romanticism

Published in 1987

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