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Vintage abstract woodcut in color by Torsten Andersson
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An abstract color woodcut by a remarkable Swedish modernist painter (1926-2009). Handwritten with the monogram TA and numbered at the bottom of the image. In the original frame.Otto Torsten Andersson (June 6, 1926 - May 30, 2009)was a Swedish modernist painter, best known for his theme of realistic depictions of abstract sculptures and his two-dimensional exploration of three-dimensional objects where colors appear to be layered in a random and superficial manner.Torsten Andersson was born in 1926. After practicing painting at the Otte Sköld School of Drawing in Stockholm in 1945, Andersson attended the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts from 1946 to 1950. In 1947, he studied art at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.From the beginning, Andersson constantly returned to the question of whether painting could be considered a language. He felt out of place in the Swedish art scene of the 1940s, when he was an emerging artist; it seemed to him that everyone had borrowed or inherited their own artistic style. His own eccentric crossing of melancholic nature painting and constructivism in the 1950s drew very little criticism. However, Andersson quickly earned the name "artist-artist", or rather "painter-artist-painter", who followed his own path, on the fringe of modernism.In 1960, Anderson became an art teacher in Stockholm. After a personal conflict with the Academy, where he suddenly found himself "completely isolated and completely abandoned", he abruptly resigned in 1966 from his teaching position and retired to his native Skåne, where he remained for the rest of his life. His artistic career was put on hold for seven years. As he would later describe the course of events in art history, 1966 inspired him to create a series of mournful paintings of tombstones, including the 2005 tombstone Min (Min gravsten). Andersson later elaborated on his opposition: "Of one hundred working drawings, ninety are destroyed. The ten surviving drawings give new impetus to one hundred, of which ninety are destroyed. Twenty drawings remain. Of these, sixteen were destroyed. Four are gone. with no guarantee of survival. "Torsten Andersson's works are the subject of a separate permanent exhibition at Moderna Museet in Stockholm.
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