The piece that here is shown is an oil painting, painted in 1957 and it´s 50x60 cm. It´s without a name. Current owner is the art gallery of ASÍ. The reason that we picked exactly this painting is because it´s unique. The brush stroke is very fragile and it´s difficult to understand. A variated colour coordination gives the piece a mysterious touch and artisticly made forms give it balance. The most complex part of the painting to understand is probably the white blob with the red line.

We´re Anna and Obba. We´re true artists. Like Oscar Wilde said “A true artist creates beautiful things and puts nothing of his own life in them.”Our art is music. Our dream is to live in Cuba or Jamaica. We´re communists. We´re hypocrits.

Krisján Davíðsson var fæddur árið 1918. Hann barðist lengi fyrir ljóðrænni myndlistartegund en nú er hún útbreiddur hluti íslenskrar myndlistar. Hann hefur verið mjög sjálfstæður í myndlist sinni, hálfgerður einfari. Hann hefur alltaf stundað myndlist sína á sínum eigin forsendum og engra annarra. Það sem hafði mest áhrif á myndlist Kristjáns var hans þrjóski og sterki karakter og aldur hans.
Verkið sem hér er sýnt er olímálverk, málað 1957. Það er 50 x 60 cm og án titils. Núverandi eigandi verksins er Listasafn ASÍ. Ástæðan fyrir því að við völdum þetta verk er sú að myndin er öðruvísi. Pensilskriftin er fíngerð og erfitt að ráða í hana. Margslungin litasamsetning gefur myndinni dularfullan blæ og listilega úthugsuð formin jafnvægi. Það torræða í myndinni er líklega hvíta klessan með rauðu línunum.

The name of this painting is Flight, The Outlaw Halla from the tale Fjalla-Eyvindur (1905). The artist Ásgrímur Jónsson (1876-1958) is one of those who laid the foundations for modern art in Iceland in the beginning of the 19th  century. He was moreover the first Icelandic artist to take painting professionally. He devoted himself mainly to interprenting the Icelandic landscape as well as illustating local folktales and folklore. This painting is of a famous event from the Icelandic folktales. We think this picture is magnificent because of the harmony of light, Icelandic landscape and the deep emotions of the woman.
 

Hringur fæddist á sveitabæ í Aðaldal 1932 á Íslandi. Hann stundaði nám við Myndlista- og handíðaskólann á árunum 1949-1952.  Hann var einn helsti fulltrúi ljóðræns raunsæis í íslenskri myndlist á 7. og 8. áratugnum. Í verkum Hrings fara saman áhrif popplistar, raunsæis og ljósmynda, en þau sveiflast milli hlutlægra lýsinga og rómantískrar innlifunar.

Listaverkið sem við völdum eftir Hring heitir ,,Birta við bakkann” sem hann málaði árið 1967. Listaverkið er frábrugðið öðrum verkum Hrings. Það er mjög tilfinningaþrungið og fallegt og pensilförin koma vel fram. Þegar við flettum í gegnum bókina um hann tókum við strax eftir þessari mynd því hún er svo stórkostleg. Birtan gefur verkinu sérstakan þokka og lýsir það upp.
 

Hringur Jóhannesson (in English)
Hringur was born on a farm in Adaldalur in 1932 in Iceland. He studied art at the Arts- and crafts school of Iceland in the years 1949- 1952. He was one of the main representative of poetic reality in Icelandic art in the seventies and the eighties. In Hringur´s paintings he mixes together the influence of pop art, reality and photography but they both are objective and romantic. 

The painting that we chose by Hringur is called “A light by the riverside” which he painted in 1967. The painting is different from the other paintings of Hringur. It is very emotional and beautiful. And the pencilmarks are obvious. When we were looking at the pictures in the book about him we noticed the picture immediately because it is so magnificent. The light brings the piece of art a very special charm and brightens it up. 
 

Sólveig og Unnur Malín. 
 

The Icelandic cosmopolitan of modern art, Guðmundur Guðmundsson Erró, is also the greatest mistery man of it. His almost forty years of living in countries far out in the world has spreaded adventurous flowers of the distent  over his work. Erró was born in the town Ólafsvík the 19th of July 1932 4 o´clock in the morning. He has  painted hundreds of paintings who stand in the most immaginable places. Erró has shocked many art lovers around the world with his open shocking pop-art.
Odelscape is the picture we are showing you it from the years 1982-83 and is 200x300 cm. It's from the so called Sinkai face of Erró's. In the picture there is alot of chaos and Erró said himself that it was the orgin of evil.

Ásgrímur Jónsson has become, through the years, very special in Icelandic art 
history. He was one of the first Icelandic modern artists and the very first one 
who made it a living. That is why we picked one of his portraits called Autumn Sun and it is painted in 1929. This is a picture of a hill called ,"Öskjuhlíð" and the colours are exspecially beautiful, he catches the light very well. The colours are soft and the picture is very romantic. There are three people on the picture who are watching the sun set, and it is as if they are alone in the world. We think that Ásgrímur Jónsson's pictures are very good and it was hard to choose one but we picked this one.

Gunnlaugur stundaði nám í Kaupmannahöfn. Hann málaði mikið til sjávar og sveita.  Hann hefur málað margar myndir af mörgum gerðum svo sem olíumálverk, vatnslitamyndir, grafíkmyndir og fjöldan allan af skissum og blýantsteikningum. Hann hefur verið mjög eftirtektarverður í íslenskri myndlist.
Gunnlaugur lést 1972 þá 68 ára gamall.
 

Gunnlaugur Scheving (1904-1972)

Gunnlaugur studied at Kopenhavn. He painted many pictures to from the sea and the contryside. He has painted many pictures of different type, such as: oil paintings, watercolours, prints beside a lot of sketches and pencil stuies. He has been noticed in Icelandic art. Gunnlaugur died at 1972, 68 years old.