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Elof Wedin (1901–1983) was a Swedish American artist who enjoyed a 50-year career in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota. His main choice of medium was oil on canvas, but he also worked with pastels on velour, carved wood, and stainless steel.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.askart.com/askart/artist.aspx?artist=105064 )〕 == Art == Wedin's early works, from the 1920s to the mid-1930s, are best described as representational. His major influences during this period were Rembrandt, Amedeo Modigliani, and Impressionism. Wedin did much Portrait painting, which he enjoyed. Wedin once said "Merely pretty people don't make the best pictures. They've got to be interesting". He liked women best, and his wife often sat for him. "I never get tired of painting her; she's never the same person twice". During the 1930s, his portraits featured oval faces and elongated features, inspired by the works of Amedeo Modigliani. Wedin also painted Landscape art, an interest that was the subject of his entry in the 1934 Minnesota State Fair. During the depression, Wedin painted for several New Deal art projects, producing a series of Minneapolis street scenes under the Public Works of Art Project, as well as works for the post offices of Litchfield, Minnesota titled ''Street Scene'', completed in 1937, and Mobridge, South Dakota titled ''Return from the Fields'' in 1938. He was also a Works Progress Administration artist, focusing on Regionalism, depicting scenes from small towns and from the North Shore (Lake Superior) of Minnesota, where he spent significant time. Unlike many regionalists, his style was a highly Geometric abstraction. Works from Wedin's middle period, 1935 to 1957, were characterized for their experimentation with textures, free form and pastel colors. They are distinctly influenced by Modernism, but not yet completely abstract. His landscapes of the 30s and 40s had flattened space with no perspective, minimal sky, and buildings represented as angular shapes. Major influences during this time included Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and the avant-garde Cubism art movement. In his final phase, 1958 through the mid-1970s, Wedin ventured into Abstract art, using raw colors applied with a palette-knife technique. By the 1960s he had begun to paint large non-objective canvases in thickly applied diagonals of bold color and black. Brilliantly colored areas that appeared to be broken up at close range would fit together at a distance, producing what Wedin called a "hidden abstract" composition.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.verncarverbeard.com/wedin.html )〕 Wedin's works are represented in many major private and institutional collections, including the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis, the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/search/Search_Grid.aspx?searchtype=MUSEUMS&artist=105064 )〕 and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://collections.si.edu/search/results.jsp?view=&dsort=&date.slider=&q=elof+wedin )〕 In 1996 Wedin was one of 33 artists whose work was featured in the exhibition "Pictures for a New Home: Minnesota’s Swedish-American Artists,” at the James J. Hill House Gallery in St. Paul, sponsored by the Minnesota Historical Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/details.cfm?imageid=141909&ImageNum=3&Page=1&Keywords=Elof%20Wedin&SearchType=Basic&CFID=8746481&CFTOKEN=43252475&bhcp=1 )〕 In 2008, Elof Wedin was one of the artists featured in the Weisman Art Muesum's "By the People, for the People" exhibit of Works Progress Administration paintings. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elof Wedin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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