I try and visit museums and art galleries as often as I can, here I Have decided to take a look at two of my more recent trips. The British Museum and the Barber Institute.
Firstly the Barber institute which is part of the university of birmingham. the exhibition I went to see was entitled Northern lights. the exhibition was a collection of Scandinavian landscape artist. These ranged from the sublime to the not so . Personal highlights included Eugene Jansson's Riddarfjarden Stockholm and Gustav Fjaestad's Winter Moon light. There was also an exceptional piece entitled The factory by Prins Eugen that for the life of me i cannot find a picture of, if I do I shall posed it below.
It was a truly fascinating experience. For most of my life I have walked the halls of art galleries, seeing everything from Rueben's to Rembrandt's and perhaps this is why i was taken aback. I feel as a British person you become almost use to looking at British and main land European landscapes and that is why these Snowscapes as they where came as such a refreshing lift.
A mixed but mainly excellent exhibition.
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