Toomas Altnurme
Camping In A Thunderstorm
| Artist: | Toomas Altnurme (1973 - ) |
| Title: | Camping In A Thunderstorm |
| Date: | 1997 |
| Technique: Material: |
oil canvas |
| Height (cm): | 160.8 |
| Width (cm): | 201.0 |
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| Description: | Altnurme is the first Estonian artist to refer to a mental unity within psychedelic manifestations of popular culture in the 1960s. He makes colourful paintings in which we can find glamour, shocking views and recognition of virtuality. A change of vision, a change of environment and abandonment of his native traditions are all important in Altnurme's work. When describing Altnurme's painting style it is appropriate to refer to the Eastern sophistication and elevated sensuality. His images are mysterious, sexy, full of emotions and buffoonery, ghostly, dark, and orientally flamboyant. Although the Oriental cognition of life has influenced Estonian art since the 1970s in the work of Tõnis Vint, it has until now either played the role of a purely meditative stimulator or offered philosophical food for thought. Art critic Alina Kurvitz has provided the following summary on Altnurme's work: “Music, ethnic-exotic motifs mixed with contemporary rhythms, Estonian verse and club music takes the viewer into a light trance, on a wave of signals straight from the cosmos, messages decoded by the human mind called Toomas Altnurme. His messages are incredibly bright and colourful, abstract/concrete pieces of art. But speaking of bright colours, yes indeed, there is a lack of them in European nature. We do not see such shades in a city where the appearance of a girl in a bright red dress, bought from a Chinese shop, is a true revelation. Why shouldn't art use colours?"* * Alina Kurvitz, Toomas Altnurme is aboriginal everywhere (Toomas Altnurme aboriginaalne kõikjal). - Vikerkaar, 2002, 10, p. 64-65. |
| Related categories: | Contemporary Art |
| Copyright notice: | Art Museum of Estonia |
| AME collection: | Paintings collection |
| Collection number: | M 7030 |
| Accretion number: | EKM j 47345 |
| Muis reference | http://muis.ee/museaalView/248391 |
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