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Around 1960 the Swiss-German artist Dieter Roth moved to Iceland. His engagement with the Icelandic art scene was of great importance in introducing movements such as conceptual art , Fluxus , happenings , body art , life art and social sculpture , which since have formed a basis for Icelandic Contemporary Art.
This is a list of women artists who were born in Iceland or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
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Abstract art became prominent in Iceland in the mid-twentieth century, spearheaded by artists such as Svavar Guðnason and Nína Tryggvadóttir.However some of the country's prominent artists working in that period eschewed abstractionism, such as Gunnlaugur Scheving who instead favoured narrative content and an approach to colour and form possibly influenced by fauvism and cubism; and Louisa ...
The source of his inspiration and the love of his life was his late wife, fellow artist and painter Kristín Halldórsdóttir (1917–2002), a former Icelandic model and dress designer, who he met in California and married on 26 September 1949.
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This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:21st-century Icelandic artists. It includes Icelandic artists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.