The visual arts produced in Sweden or by Swedish artists are referred to as famous art of Sweden. Sweden has been a country for almost 1,000 years, and Swedish art is widely considered to be part of the larger Nordic art of Scandinavia during this time, as well as many succeeding periods. It has been heavily impacted by wider trends in European art, particularly since around 1100. Following World War II, the United States’ influence grew significantly. Contemporary Swedish art has a high production per capita due to strong art subsidies.
Sweden has an extremely large number of mediaeval church paintings and fittings that have survived. Viking art was one period when Nordic art had a great influence on the rest of northern Europe, and there are numerous surviving examples, both in stone structures left untouched around the countryside and in modern-day artefacts discovered.
Prehistoric art
The very term, ‘prehistoric art,’ is difficult to define. Technically speaking, it refers to the ‘art’ made by prehistoric peoples; that is, by people in those societies without, and usually before the development of, written texts.
Culture, religion, and the individual artist would all influence the qualities of prehistoric art. The features would be found in the materials utilised, which could include charcoal, ash, pigment, or stone or wood sculptures.
Prehistoric is a famous art of Sweden art, in particular, is significant because it provides insight into the evolution of human thought and behaviour. The Palaeolithic era, 290,000 years ago, saw the emergence of artistic thought among hominids. According to research, early art was created for rituals and religious ceremonies.
Notable examples include the red abstract symbols at El Castillo, the monochrome cave murals at Chauvet and Coliboaia, and the early venus figurines from across Europe. Other Aurignacian rock art included hand stencils, finger tracings, engravings, and bas-reliefs.
Medieval and Gothic art
Famous arts of Sweden include medieval and gothic. Gothic art was a mediaeval art form that sprang from Romanesque art in Northern France in the 12th century AD, aided by the development of Gothic architecture. It extended throughout Western Europe, as well as much of Northern, Southern, and Central Europe, though it never completely eclipsed more classical styles in Italy.
While the Gothic style can vary according to location, age, and type of building, it is often characterized by 5 key architectural elements: large stained glass windows, pointed arches, ribbed vaults, flying buttresses, and ornate decoration.
Renaissance and Baroque art
Baroque art is another example of famous arts of Sweden. It is Asymmetric and has more dramatic use of colours. Renaissance art is symmetric and has less dramatic use of colours. Famous artists. Bernini and Caravaggio are one of the famous artists of the baroque art. Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo are one of the famous artists of the renaissance art.
Some of the qualities most frequently associated with the Baroque are grandeur, sensuous richness, drama, dynamism, movement, tension, emotional exuberance, and a tendency to blur distinctions between the various arts.
Baroque art was meant to evoke emotion and passion instead of the calm rationality that had been prized during the Renaissance. Among the greatest painters of the Baroque period are Velázquez, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Rubens, Poussin, and Vermeer. Caravaggio is an heir of the humanist painting of the High Renaissance.
Rococo and the Gustavian style
If the Rococo was vegetative, the Gustavian was architectural and founded on antiquity’s ideas. The Rococo’s curving lines were straightened out, and silhouettes became more symmetrical, with rectangles and ovals being especially popular.
Rococo arose from the Baroque period, although it was more frivolous. It was status architecture in both cases. Both had a lot of decorative elements. Baroque, on the other hand, was dramatic, whilst Rococo was light and airy.
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Romanticism and naturalism:
Naturalism shares with Romanticism a belief that the actual is important not in itself but in what it can reveal about the nature of a larger reality; it differs sharply from Romanticism, however, in finding that reality not in transcendent ideas or absolute ideals.
The characteristics of naturalism include a carefully detailed presentation of modern society, often featuring lower-class characters in an urban setting or a panoramic view of a slice of contemporary life; a deterministic philosophy that emphasizes the effects of heredity and environment; characters who act from.
Naturalism and Romanticism:
Naturalism and Romanticism both believe that the actual is important not in and of itself but in what it can reveal about the nature of a larger reality; however, Naturalism differs sharply from Romanticism in that it finds that reality in scientific laws rather than transcendent ideas or absolute ideals.
Naturalism is defined by a meticulous depiction of modern society, often featuring lower-class characters in an urban setting or a panoramic view of a slice of contemporary life; a deterministic philosophy that emphasizes the effects of heredity and environment; and a deterministic philosophy that emphasizes the effects of heredity and environment.
Modernism and expressionism:
Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas.
Expressionist art tried to convey emotion and meaning rather than reality. Each artist had their own unique way of “expressing” their emotions in their art. In order to express emotion, the subjects are often distorted or exaggerated.
The main contribution of expressionism to “modern art” was to popularize the idea of subjectivity in painting and sculpture, and to show that representational art may legitimately include subjective distortion.
