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Kvinneakt ("female nude" in Norwegian) [2] [3] is an abstract bronze sculpture located on the Transit Mall of downtown Portland, Oregon.Designed and created by Norman J. Taylor between 1973 and 1975, the work was funded by TriMet and the United States Department of Transportation and was installed on the Transit Mall in 1977.
Frogner Park is the largest park in the city and covers 45 hectares; [4] the sculpture installation is the world's largest sculpture park made by a single artist. Frogner Park is the most popular tourist attraction in Norway, with between 1 and 2 million visitors each year, [ 5 ] and is open to the public at all times.
The Vingen rock carvings (Norwegian: Vingenfeltet) are a set of petroglyphs located along the Frøysjøen strait in Bremanger Municipality in Vestland county, Norway.They are located about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) straight east of the village of Berle and about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) south of the village of Rugsund.
Gustav Vigeland (11 April 1869 – 12 March 1943), born as Adolf Gustav Thorsen, was a Norwegian sculptor.Gustav Vigeland occupies a special position among Norwegian sculptors, both in the power of his creative imagination and in his productivity.
Amphitrite, the wave and the sea birds (Norwegian: Amfitrite, bølgen og havfuglene) is a 4 m (13 ft) tall stainless steel sculpture by Jørleif Uthaug located in Porsgrunn, Norway. The work consists of a nude female figure (representing Amphitrite, the wife of Neptune) and two seabirds gliding over a large geometric wave. It is one of Uthaug's ...
Ute de Lange Nilsen (born 1931), Czech-Norwegian jewellery artist and puppet maker; Louise Nippierd (born 1962), metal and jewellery artist; Irene Nordli (born 1967), visual artist and sculptor; Asta Nørregaard (1853–1933), painter; Kaja Norum (born 1989), painter; Kari Nyquist (1918–2011), ceramist
Krohg was also part of a group of four Norwegian artists including Henrik Sorensen, Jean Heiberg and Axel Revold who emphasised the purpose of their art as a form of moral education. [3] This is evident in the United Nations Security Council mural through Krohg's aim to create an artwork which inspires peace and harmony.
Nordic art is the art made in the Nordic countries: Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, ... Norwegian art came into its own in the 19th century, especially with ...