2016Icelandic Art VII - Mrs. Nína Tryggvadóttir–Abstraction, 1952 - Sheetlets

Geometric abstraction, which shook the foundations of Icelandic art during the 1950s,
is undoubtedly a watershed in the country’s short history of modern art. For the first time a substantial group of Icelandic artists came together under the banner of a particular artistic ideology which saw the work of art as an autonomous and wholly non-objective extension of the visible world.