Articles by: Tinna

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BRAS

Join us in Herðubreið for the launching of BRAS, a new cultural festival dedicated to children and young adults. Live music from young locals and light refreshments. The Icelandic musician DAÐI FREYR will perform live simultaneously in thee places: Seyðisfjörður, Eskifjörður and Egilsstaðir! The festival will take place for the first time all around East Iceland in September with exhibitions, workshops, concerts, theatre performances and more. BRAS is launch in partnership with Austurbrú, the Cultural Center of Fljótdalshérað, The Cultural Center of Fjarðarbyggð / Music Center of Austurland and Skaftfell in close collaboration with Fljótsdalshérað Municipality, Fjarðabyggð Municipality, the School Administration of Austurland as well as kindergartens and primary schools in East […]

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All kinds of landscapes

Landscape and nature has always been an inspiration for artists. Icelandic artists Nína Tryggvadóttir (1913-1968) and Gunnlaugur Scheving (1904-1972) are no exception from that tradition. Even though their key works in the exhibition “All Kinds of Landscapes”, Síldarbátur (e. Herringboat) by Gunnlaugur and Eyðimörk (e. Desert) by Nína, are not conventional landscape paintings they do present a kind of a conclusion of these two artists’ development and experiments through the years. Nína finally established the artistic freedom to work and develop her own style while studying at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen. From the late 30’s Nína painted many […]

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