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Actor. Years active. 1984–present. Partner (s) Maria Bonnevie (1998–2003) Sanna Lundell (2005–present) Children. 3. Mikael Åke Persbrandt ( Swedish pronunciation: [ˈmîːkaɛl ˈpæ̂ːʂbrant] ⓘ; born 25 September 1963) is a Swedish actor. In Swedish films, he is perhaps best known for playing Gunvald Larsson in the Beck series of ...
Corporate Memphis (alternative names: Alegria art, big tech art, flat art, corporate artstyle[ 1], or, derisively, globohomo (global homogenization) [ 1][ 2][ 3]) is an art style named after the Memphis Group that features flat areas of color and geometric elements. Widely associated with Big Tech illustrations in the late 2010s [ 4] and early ...
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston. At the Races in the Countryside or Carriage at the Races is an 1869 oil painting by the French painter Edgar Degas. The painting, which depicts a scene of a family in a horse-drawn carriage in the countryside, is on display at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. [1] The painting was shown at the First ...
Primitivism. In the arts of the Western World, Primitivism is a mode of aesthetic idealization that means to recreate the experience of the primitive time, place, and person, either by emulation or by re-creation. In Western philosophy, Primitivism proposes that the people of a primitive society possess a morality and an ethics that are ...
The Art Deco movement of architecture and design appeared in Paris in about 1910–12, and continued until the beginning of World War II in 1939. It took its name from the International Exposition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts held in Paris in 1925. It was characterized by bold geometric forms, bright colors, and highly stylized ...
Ligne claire ( French for "clear line", pronounced [liɲ klɛʁ]; Dutch: klare lijn, pronounced [ˈklaːrə ˈlɛin]) is a style of drawing created and pioneered by Hergé, the Belgian cartoonist and creator of The Adventures of Tintin. It uses clear strong lines sometimes of varied width and no hatching, while contrast is downplayed as well.
Charles Demuth, Aucassin and Nicolette, oil on canvas, 1921. Precisionism was a modernist art movement that emerged in the United States after World War I.Influenced by Cubism, Purism, and Futurism, Precisionist artists reduced subjects to their essential geometric shapes, eliminated detail, and often used planes of light to create a sense of crisp focus and suggest the sleekness and sheen of ...
Jugendstil ( German pronunciation: [ˈjuːɡn̩tˌstiːl] ⓘ; "Youth Style") was an artistic movement, particularly in the decorative arts, that was influential primarily in Germany and elsewhere in Europe to a lesser extent from about 1895 until about 1910. [ 1 ] It was the German counterpart of Art Nouveau.