Viking-Venus-Art-Catalog

ATRIUM | DECKS 2–3
KÅRE TVETER
1922–2012 NORWAY OIL ON CANVAS
Norwegian painter Kåre Tveter is known for his landscape paintings of winter and autumn scenery in pale white and soft pastel colors. With his minimal
use of color and nuances of white, Tveter has become known as the “Painter of Light.” In his work, light becomes so much more than the transition
between day and night—it takes its own meditative form and becomes a vessel for nature’s mysteries.
Tveter’s motifs are primarily the poetry of light and the expression of personal feelings. What was most important to him was drawing out the essence
of his experiences in nature, and he was particularly concerned with what he called “the inner light,” the light of the mind’s inner landscape. Tveter
found his motifs from Svalbard in the high north of Norway to the woodlands of Finnskogen in the south of Norway and Sweden. He stayed true to this
range of motifs, which he first entertained in 1957, throughout his life.
WINTER EVENING, FINNSKOGEN | 1991
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