Conversin' with the Elders
Kirsa Andreasen
Kunstgalleriet, Stavanger
6.-30.9.12
Landscape paintings with a twist
Classical landscape paintings are the backdrops of these paintings, with reference to the romantic and classical masters. But in front of this are weird looking twins with large eyes and in strange poses. The ever present people of the old landscape paintings are removed, and replaces with this artist's dominating figures. They seems to have no interest in the landscape, only in themselves.
The artist generously let us see her sketches for the works, this shows the original and how she transforms it.