2013Icelandic Art IV - Special Folder

From the beginning and until the present day, landscape has been the central preoccupation of Icelandic artists. Naturally, their attitude to landscape has undergone various changes in accordance with changing social mores and cultural preoccupations. The work of the Icelandic Landscape pioneers, Porarinn B. Porlaksson, Asgrimur Jonsson, Kjarval and Jon Stefansson was suffused with the optimism and patriotic fervour of the independence movement.