Arctic Foxes, Nordic Landscapes
Russian red fox photos, Magnum $100 print sale, Harald Sohlberg's luminous landscapes & new art prizes
‘Lisa Portrait’ – Russian red fox photograph by Ivan Kislov.
A Russian Miner & The Arctic Fox
When Ivan Kislov isn’t being a mining engineer in Chukotka, Russia he’s taking amazing photos of foxes and other wild animals in the Arctic Circle.
“Photography is my hobby and relaxation from routine. I like hikes to inaccessible places, rafting, walking – if I bring good pictures back it's particularly fortunate.”
“Foxes are curious and can come very close” see more on BoredPanda.
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Magnum Square Print Sale
Magnum photographers and Vogue are donating 50% of proceeds to the NAACP, the movement to build political power for, and ensure the wellbeing of, communities of colour in the US. Get signed or estate-stamped 6x6” prints for $100.
“Enchanting the pig” - $100 (6x6”) by Alessandra Sanguinetti, Argentina, 1999.
“As a child, I remember closing my eyes shut tightly, and fervently wishing for things to happen or appear before me. Of course, disappointment would set in when I opened them.
I know better now. I wish wilful ignorance, racism and injustice would disappear overnight, but it’s a long process and I’m still learning how to be a part of that change.”
“Daufuskie Island” - $100 (6x6”) by Constantine Manos, South Carolina, 1962.
“The United States is a mixture of races, religions, and different points of view. Our survival and growth are based on respect by all, for the views of all. Photographs provide a bridge, which brings all people together. They can make us smile. I believe that this photograph of a young boy in a tree in South Carolina is such a photograph.”
Better Masking Tape Edges
Hands up if you’ve messed up masking tape edges with acrylics? Not just me then. Step in Jackson’s Art resident guru Julie Caves with a nifty 3 step solution.
Slow Art of Harald Sohlberg
One of Norway's greatest painters and a contemporary of Edvard Munch but for some reason I only discovered the work of Harald Sohlberg this week. Only a year late for the first major UK exhibition of his work at Dulwich Picture Gallery. Oh well.
His painting of a farm near Oslo (below) recently sold for £2.34 million. Sotheby’s Scandinavian art expert Richard Lowkes spoke of the painting’s continued appeal:
“I think Nordic art speaks to modern concerns – their respect and awe before nature – and there is a mindfulness or ‘slow art’ quality in work by Harald Sohlberg or Vilhelm Hammershøi”
‘Modne Jorder’ (Ripe Fields) by Harald Sohlberg, Oil on canvas, 1898.
Further detail on the painting from Richard Lowkes in this 4 minute video:
“I have felt nature’s enigmatic and incomprehensible side and I have instinctively sought to know and understand it.” – Harald Sohlberg
Apollo Magazine’s article on Norwegian landscape painters is a good follow up read.
New Art Competitions
VIA Arts Prize - £3,000 of prizes for work inspired by Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese culture (closes 27th Sep)
PhotoX Awards - £2,000 of prizes for all styles of photography (closes Oct 23rd)
The Art of Birds
In a week of new discoveries a psychologist at Keio University in Tokyo led a study showing that pigeons learned to discern a Picasso painting from a Monet. Yep.
Meanwhile if you’ve been craving 1:12 scale miniatures of birds and animals Fanni Sandor’s the Instagram artist you need.
Tiny robin feeding its young by Fanny Sandor IGMA Fellow.
Hummingbird version…
See you next week,
Grant