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- Vilhelm Hammershoi: The Poetry of Silence - Royal Academy of Artshighlight
1- Vilhelm Hammershøi, A Wing of Christiansborg Castle. Late Autumn, 1890-92, Oil on canvas, 115,5 x 147,5 cm, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Photo SMK, Copenhagen
2- Vilhelm Hammershøi, From the British Museum. Winter, 1906, Oil on canvas, 51,9 x 45,3 cm, Fuglsang Kunstmuseum, Denmark, Photo Hans Petersen
3- Vilhelm Hammershøi, Interior with Woman at Piano, Strandgade 30, 1901, Oil on canvas, 55,9 x 45,1 cm, Private collection, Photo Maurice Aeschimann
4- Vilhelm Hammershøi, Sunbeams or Sunshine. Dust Motes Dancing in the Sunbeams, 1900, Oil on canvas, 70 x 59 cm, Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen, Photo Pernille KlempThis exhibition was organised by the Royal Academy of Arts, London and the National Museum of Western Art and NIKKEI, Tokyo
The melancholy works of Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi (1964-1916) possess that mysterious presence distinctive of the best Symbolist pictures. Their rigorous yet lyrical geometry, their minimalist yet expressive palette arrest one's gaze and hold it. A form of hypnosis. Sometimes compared to Whistler stylistically, Hammershøi, despite his numerous stays in London, exhibits a character at odds with the dandy extravagance of that other imported Englishman. His intimate œuvre reaches its climax in peaceful interior views, whose calm verges on a disquieting stillness. The artist's closed spaces are, in turn, utterly empty, or inhabited by the lonely, ghostly presence of his wife, her back turned towards the beholder.
Vilhelm Hammershøi: The Poetry of SilenceJune 28 through September 7, 08
Royal Academy of Arts, London
