Early sunday morning analyse

« The use of swastikas in his master pieces created a big polemic in Sweden forcing the Prime Minister to remove two of Bengtsson’s paintings.

Indeed, because of the European Union Foreign secretaries meeting taking place on September the 4 th and 5 th 2009, Swedish authorities decided to remove these paintings judged “sensitive”.

Therefore, Early Sunday Morning (1970) (whose I m going to talk about later) and Hat and Cap Factory (1969) DIAPO 3 (commenter le tableau) was removed from Moderna Museet temporarily.

DIAPO 4 Artistic movement It‘s hard to determine the artistic movement Dick Bengtsson belongs to.

Loads of his paintings are Realistic and belong to the realism.

Realism in the visual arts is the accurate and objective depiction of the ordinary, visible world.

As Realists prefer an observation of physical appearance over imagination, subjects are represented in a straightforward (simple) manner without embellishment and without the formal rules of artistic practice.

Bengtsson painted lots of realistic buildings or places or even real character (as in Hitler och drömköket, (1973), where we can see Hitler and his generals).

Clique pour afficher tableau Hitler With El Tres de mayo , Fransisco Goya is one of the most famous realistic painters .

Clique pour afficher le tableau DIAPO 5 Dick Bengtsson is not only a realistic painter but also and above all an appropriationist.

Appropriation can be understood as the use of borrowed elements in the creation of a new work.

In most cases the original 'thing' remains accessible as the original, without change.

Roy Lichteinstein and John Baldessari are known in this artistic movement.

Clique pour avoir les tableaux des deux As for Bengtsson, he is unfortunately not very famous beside Sweden.

DIAPO 6 Work of art Name: Early Sunday in the Morning Artist: Dick Bengtsson Date: 1970 Nature: oil on masonite Size: 89.4x153cm, (multiply by ) DIAPO 7. »