On January 26, 2012, Her Majesty Queen Sonja of Norway attended the opening of the exhibition, Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, at the National Gallery/National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo.
According to the official website for the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, this exhibition:
…presents works by the most important pioneers of Canadian landscape painting from the early years of the 20th century.
These painters’ love of their homeland encouraged them to explore the wilderness of Canada’s national parks. The Group of Seven laid the foundations for Canadian modernism. Canadians felt a close affinity for the Scandinavian countries, and the “dream of the Nordic”. The simplified motifs and modernist idiom of Canadian landscape painters were clearly influenced by their Nordic counterparts. With 120 paintings from major museums and collections in Canada, the exhibition provides a representative insight into this crucial chapter of Canadian modernism. source
The exhibition ends on May 13, 2012. For more information please click here.
Meanwhile, His Majesty King Harald V of Norway attended the Nordic Norwegian Ski Championship in Voss on January 25, 2012.
Sources: Kongehuset and Nasjonalmuseet
