the capercaillie playing Size:70x100

the capercaillie playing Size:70x100Poster with the painting Tjdern plays by Theodor Kittelsen (Norwegian title: Tiuren spiller ). The picture shows a beautiful, dark natural landscape in Norway. It is night and the stars are shining in the sky. High up in a fir tree, a woodpecker is playing. "It's not the dramatic 'Effects' in nature that I care about. That's the mysterious feature in it, the quiet, the secretive " said Kittelsen in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten in 1904. Theodor

Poster with a painting by the Swedish artist Johan Axel Gustaf Acke

In the background we see Riddarholm church

Twenty years later in the 1840s

Poster with the painting Mother's Love by John Bauer from 1917

Illustrator: J Whitbread | Created: 1853

that is all - Oscar Wilde

Artist: John Bauer | Created: 1911

The view was very similar to that used by Turner in his visionary paintings of the conflagration that would destroy the old Parliament in 1834

Illustrator: G

The picture's doomsday mood and dramatic composition have several features from Romanticism: the contrast between life and death

They seem to find this very entertaining

© Sjöberg Bildbyrå - Photo KG Kristofferson