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Johannes S. Kjarval,
Mount Skjadbreidor
,
view from Grafningur,
c.
1957-61,
oil on canvas.
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another pioneering Icelandic painter, Thorarinn Thorlaksson.
Kjarval travelled as a young man first to London in 1911, where
he discovered Turner's paintings at the National Gallery and in
the National Gallery of British Art, now Tate Britain. He moved
to Copenhagen to study at the Royal Academy of Art, returning
eventually to Iceland in 1922 to settle in Reykjavík. Kjarval's
approach to the Icelandic landscape was to make large, intensely
detailed canvases, in jewel-like colour, fragmentary forms and
often very little sense of a horizon. The eye is therefore pulled
straight up into the image with little external reference. The
