Fine Art and You

Albert Gustaf Edelfelt was born on 21 July 1854 and lived till 18 August 1905. He was born in Porvoo, Finland and was the son of Carl Alvert Edefelt who was an architect. His parents were also Finnish and spoke Swedish. Albert started his formal art education in 1869 at the Drawing School of…

"I'm in love with the 'object' woman , her graphic qualities. I fall for her outlines, her bone structure, the shadows under nose and lips, the knuckles of long slender fingers, the lightfall on her calves, pitchblack, and cheek brushing eyelashes.

Sampo Kaikkonen  is a Finnish figurative painter and his main media is oil painting respecting the technique and style of the old masters. The atmosphere in Kaikkonen's works is timeless, people are without any symbols of specific era and the landscape is universal. Beside the dominant human fi…